From: Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca>
To: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@oss.sgi.com" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup(DoesNOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 14:19:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A58C137.63907CDC@storm.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0101071321330.18916-100000@shell.cyberus.ca>
jamal wrote:
> > What problem does this fix?
> >
> > If you are mucking with the ifindex, you may be affecting many places
> > in the rest of the kernel, as well as user-space programs which use
> > ifindex to bind to raw devices.
>
> I am talking about 2.5 possibilities now that 2.4 is out. I think
> "parasitic/virtual" interfaces is not a issue specific to VLANs.
> VLANs happen to use devices today to solve the problem.
> As pointed by that example no routing daemons are doing aliased
> interfaces (which are also virtual interfaces).
> We need some more general solution.
>
Something like this also becomes an issue when you want routing
daemons to interact sensibly with IPSEC tunnels. A paper on these
issues is at:
http://www.quintillion.com/fdis/moat/ipsec+routing/
It is not (AFAIK) clear that the FreeS/WAN team will adopt the solutions
suggested there, but it is very clear we need to deal with those issues.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-07 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-06 21:33 [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!) Ben Greear
2001-01-06 23:17 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-07 4:06 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 5:36 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-07 13:42 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission Alan Cox
2001-01-07 15:33 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-07 16:46 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-07 17:32 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-07 19:02 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 18:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-07 18:53 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-07 19:30 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 18:30 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-07 22:40 ` 5116
2001-01-08 2:19 ` David Ford
2001-01-09 20:25 ` Christopher E. Brown
2001-01-10 2:47 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 18:21 ` jamal
2001-01-07 19:00 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-07 19:10 ` jamal
2001-01-07 19:24 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-08 0:21 ` jamal
2001-01-07 19:37 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 18:53 ` jamal
2001-01-07 3:29 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!) Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-07 5:40 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-07 6:15 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 10:22 ` David Ford
2001-01-07 12:13 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-07 12:01 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-08 5:32 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-08 6:12 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-08 6:26 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-08 6:57 ` David Ford
2001-01-08 13:08 ` jamal
2001-01-09 13:28 ` Blu3Viper
2001-01-08 6:13 ` Blu3Viper
2001-01-07 12:19 ` David Ford
2001-01-07 16:56 ` jamal
2001-01-07 17:37 ` Gleb Natapov
2001-01-07 18:02 ` routable interfaces WAS( " jamal
2001-01-07 19:21 ` routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (DoesNOT " Ben Greear
2001-01-07 18:29 ` jamal
2001-01-07 18:51 ` Gleb Natapov
2001-01-07 19:05 ` jamal
2001-01-07 19:19 ` Sandy Harris [this message]
2001-01-07 20:42 ` routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup(DoesNOT " Ben Greear
2001-01-08 0:37 ` jamal
2001-01-08 5:25 ` routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup(DoesNOTmeet " Ben Greear
2001-01-08 13:05 ` jamal
2001-01-07 3:29 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet " Andi Kleen
2001-01-07 4:00 ` jamal
2001-01-07 4:06 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-07 5:43 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-07 11:40 ` [little bit OT] ip _IS_ _NOT_ ifconfig and route ! (was Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)) Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-01-07 11:50 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-07 13:47 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission Alan Cox
2001-01-07 16:12 ` jamal
2001-01-07 16:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-07 15:56 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!) jamal
2001-01-07 16:30 ` Gleb Natapov
2001-01-07 16:36 ` jamal
2001-01-07 19:54 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumissionpolicy!) Ben Greear
2001-01-07 6:24 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 5:29 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-07 6:22 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!) Ben Greear
2001-01-07 5:27 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-07 8:11 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!) (Benchmarks) Ben Greear
2001-01-07 7:15 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-08 8:12 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (New Benchmarks) Ben Greear
2001-01-08 7:00 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-08 16:26 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-08 16:50 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-09 16:27 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 13:50 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission Alan Cox
2001-01-07 16:44 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-01-07 19:09 ` Ben Greear
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