From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bruce Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] netns: add linux-vrf features via network namespaces Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:21:19 -0600 Message-ID: <49CA761F.1020006@alcatel-lucent.com> References: <4909B10A.8090403@thomson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4909B10A.8090403-L+G57L1VLRbR7s880joybQ@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: containers-qjLDD68F18O7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org Cc: Vivien Chappelier List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org Vivien Chappelier wrote: > Hi, > > The recently introduced network namespaces allow separate standalone > network stacks to coexist on the same machine. This is a very useful > functionality that we have been needing and using in our products > for some time, through the VRF ptchset > (http://linux-vrf.sourceforge.net/). The goal of the VRF patchset and > network namespaces are very similar, yet some features of the VRF are > missing that these patches intend to provide. > > Hi, I have been a silent observer of the network namespace work for a few months. Like a couple of others, I also am interested in the functionality provided by the linux-vrf patches presented here by Vivien. Eric Biederman mentioned some sysfs patches that he was working on. Daniel Lezcano submitted a proposed new socketat syscall. Other than that this thread seems to have died a few months ago as far as I have been able to find. I would like to find out if there is any updated status. I offer my help in this effort. I am a new Linux developer, but I developed similar vrf features in a BSD-based stack under VxWorks. Thanks, Bruce