Re: Net containers config and usage

[chris-SqNQQPNds68nxqbYAscKCQ@public.gmane.org]

> >
> >Yes, ultimately we'll need the physical device inside the same namespace
> >as our application.  Our application does a lot of management on the 
> >interface,
> >monitoring things like the interface's link-pulse and such, and that 
> >wouldn't
> >be available through a virtual interface.  We can always redesign things
> >to have the management portion run in the namespace with the physical 
> >interface,
> >but for performance reasons we'd eventually want the physical interface to 
> >be
> >directly inside the namespace anyway - so that would probably be wasted 
> >effort.
> >  
> Did you tried with the macvlan ?

I just tried it - and it does work - I can move the vlan interfaces into the
namespace.   But that's not a solution for us - we really need to support
communications out to other nodes on the network that we can't count on using
vlan.  

Thanks,
Chris