From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Balbir Singh Subject: Re: SNMP statistics in namespaces Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:12:26 +0530 Message-ID: <48AEDE62.8020909@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1219418446.20559.60.camel@nimitz> Reply-To: balbir-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1219418446.20559.60.camel@nimitz> 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: Dave Hansen Cc: "Containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org Dave Hansen wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 13:57 +0200, Eelco Chaudron wrote: >> I was looking at the 2.6.26 nw namespace code, and noticed that the >> SNMP counters are still system wide. Looking at the status page there >> is not separate item on SNMP. Was this overlooked, skipped on purpose, >> or is it in the pipeline? >> >> Hope some one can answer this... > > I'm an idiot. I know that SNMP has something to do with network > statistics, and I'm too lazy to google it. > > Could you give us a quick idea why SNMP is important here? You're > welcome to add it to the list, but it's unlikely to get implemented > until someone thinks it is important. That said, I'd be happy to help > you put together some patches to implement it. SNMP is typically the way that most network administration (statistics and control) is done. I have not looked at the network namespace implementation, but I am quite confident that it would be a useful thing to do, if not done already. -- Balbir