From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
To: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fw: [Bug 66691] New: iproute2: macvlan: Wrong root device shown if in different netns
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:41:57 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52AED8F5.5030804@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXE3d81W+QG0kO_7P+36YkyNsRNup+MGq-1NQE0TxKMtBiJ4g@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/16/2013 02:38 PM, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
>> This isn't a iproute2 bug, it is only reporting what the kernel tells it
>
> But iproute2 assumes that the ifindex is unique within all net
> namespaces. This isn't true anymore
> after commit aa79e66eee5d525e2fcbd2a5fcb87ae3dd4aa9e9 "net: Make
> ifindex generation
> per-net namespace".
>
> However, in order to do the right thing iproute2 would have to know
> the ifindex of the
> link device _and_ its associated netns.
>
> Not sure how to deal with that ...
Helmut, what would you expect to see from "ip netns exec myns ip link"
in case there were no device with ifindex 2 in the myns netns?
> Helmut
> .
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-16 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-06 20:05 Fw: [Bug 66691] New: iproute2: macvlan: Wrong root device shown if in different netns Stephen Hemminger
[not found] ` <CAGXs5wXC+eTZD3sXD4zFtkpY8tcU14Kr6AiA9=kugHups_KCHA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-12-07 9:18 ` Kevin Wilson
2013-12-09 8:02 ` Michal Kubecek
2013-12-16 10:38 ` Helmut Schaa
2013-12-16 10:41 ` Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2013-12-16 10:47 ` Helmut Schaa
2013-12-16 11:01 ` Pavel Emelyanov
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