From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: net 00/05: routing based send-to-self implementation
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:37:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B141EFB.4070409@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1r5rf4xm9.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
On 11/30/2009 11:32 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Patrick McHardy<kaber@trash.net> writes:
>
>> These patches are yet another attempt at adding "send-to-self" functionality,
>> allowing to send packets between two local interfaces over the wire. Unlike
>> the approaches I've seen so far, this one is purely routing based.
>> Especially the oif classification should also be useful for different setups.
>
> Why not put each physical interface in a different network namespace?
> That should work with no changes today.
This doesn't work if you want to have one application manage lots of interfaces
and send traffic between these interfaces. Certainly there are use-cases that
can use multiple name-spaces, but it's nice to have the option not to use them
as well.
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-30 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-30 17:55 RFC: net 00/05: routing based send-to-self implementation Patrick McHardy
2009-11-30 17:55 ` net 01/05: fib_rules: rearrange struct fib_rule Patrick McHardy
2009-11-30 17:55 ` net 02/05: fib_rules: rename ifindex/ifname/FRA_IFNAME to iifindex/iifname/FRA_IIFNAME Patrick McHardy
2009-11-30 20:21 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-11-30 20:23 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-11-30 17:55 ` net 03/05: fib_rules: add oif classification Patrick McHardy
2009-11-30 22:31 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-12-01 9:32 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-12-01 9:48 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-11-30 17:55 ` net 04/05: fib_rules: allow to delete local rule Patrick McHardy
2009-12-01 13:23 ` jamal
2009-12-01 17:12 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2009-12-01 17:38 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-11-30 17:55 ` ipv4 05/05: add sysctl to accept packets with local source addresses Patrick McHardy
2009-11-30 19:32 ` RFC: net 00/05: routing based send-to-self implementation Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 19:37 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2009-11-30 20:04 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-30 20:15 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-11-30 20:15 ` Ben Greear
2009-11-30 20:23 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-12-03 6:32 ` David Miller
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