Re: Net containers config and usage

["Chris R. Jones" <chris-SqNQQPNds68nxqbYAscKCQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:21:43PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> chris-SqNQQPNds68nxqbYAscKCQ@public.gmane.org wrote:
> >>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.  
> >  
> Perhaps I am misunderstand but the macvlan is just an "eth aliased" 
> interface, so you should but able to communicate with the outside world 
> and keep the same performances as the physical device, no ? The only 
> drawback with the macvlan is you can not communicate on the same host 
> between different namespaces. We did some benchmark last year wih the 
> macvlan and we got very good results.

Oh great, I confused the macvlan support with 802.1q vlan interfaces 
(as added through vconfig).  macvlan does look very promising - I was able 
to create a macvlan interface and assign it to my namespace - looks pretty good!

Thanks,
Chris