From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Chris R. Jones" Subject: Re: Net containers config and usage Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:20:13 -0800 Message-ID: <20090115232013.GA9722@versecorp.net> References: <20090113214747.GA23742@versecorp.net> <1231887220.6398.73.camel@groeck-laptop> <496DA755.1040001@free.fr> <20090114172739.GA13581@versecorp.net> <496E23DA.9080402@free.fr> <20090114192633.GA8572@us.ibm.com> <20090114193944.GA14129@versecorp.net> <496E42D6.2080306@free.fr> <20090115215900.GA30607@versecorp.net> <496FB6F7.9080906@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <496FB6F7.9080906-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Daniel Lezcano Cc: "containers-qjLDD68F18O7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org" , "Eric W. Biederman" List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.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