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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Support for VRF in NFS?
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 10:31:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181108153136.GA4947@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <efe334ad-4905-fc24-1b36-3c4129b72888@candelatech.com>

On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 09:08:16PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/07/2018 05:14 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 01:03:54PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I made a stab at implementing VRF support in NFS, but it appears
> >>fairly complicated and I ended up reverting my changes....
> >>
> >>Is anyone working on this?
> >>
> >>And, if not, if anyone would like to be sponsored to work on this, please
> >>let me know.
> >
> >Um, sorry--what's VRF?
> 
> Virtual Router logic.  It is sort of like network stack containers,
> and has been solid and fully featured in the kernel since 4.16 or so.
> 
> In the end, you effectively need to call the logic that SO_BINDTODEVICE
> calls on the socket before binding to an IP.
> 
> The NFS and RPC logic is a giant tangled mess to my eyes, so
> hoping I could bribe someone else to do it :)

So it's not enough to support network namespaces?

What's your motivation for this?

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-08 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-06 21:03 Support for VRF in NFS? Ben Greear
2018-11-08  1:14 ` J. Bruce Fields
2018-11-08  5:08   ` Ben Greear
2018-11-08 15:31     ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2018-11-08 16:35       ` Ben Greear
2018-11-09  9:59         ` Steven Whitehouse
2018-11-09 14:48           ` Ben Greear
     [not found]             ` <CAGKpdE9YMQNisieoOUbenwA8a7PhTngLTX=v8Bkznfqc2816dQ@mail.gmail.com>
2018-11-12 14:21               ` Fwd: " David Windsor
2018-11-12 14:47                 ` Ben Greear
2018-11-12 16:39                   ` David Windsor

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