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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Support creating macvlans from macvlans
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:54:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B12B20.7000602@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1ocwfsgw7.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> When running in a network namespace whose only link to
> the outside world is a macvlan device, not being
> able to create another macvlan is a real pain.
> 
> So modify macvlan creation to allow automatically forward
> a creation of a macvlan on a macvlan to become a creation
> of a macvlan on the underlying network device.

I'm not sure I understand the constallation, what is the underlying
device in this case? A device outside the namespace?


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-06 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-05 23:12 [PATCH] macvlan: Support creating macvlans from macvlans Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-06 13:54 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-03-06 14:17   ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-06 14:25     ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-06 15:03       ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-06 15:08         ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-06 15:24           ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-06 15:33             ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-06 15:50               ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-06 15:56                 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-06 17:07             ` Ben Greear
2009-03-06 20:16               ` [PATCH] macvlan: Deterministic ingress packet delivery Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-07 16:36                 ` Ben Greear
2009-03-09 13:25                 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-13 20:16                   ` David Miller
2009-03-13 20:15           ` [PATCH] macvlan: Support creating macvlans from macvlans David Miller

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