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On 9/26/14, 2:45 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Ah.  You are talking about a system with 2k namespaces and 20-50
> services providing services in all 2k namespaces. Something completely
> different than the case of quagga you mentioned earlier.

Not at all. The earlier quagga example was a starting point on the 
bigger topic -- inefficiencies of namespaces as VRFs. In all of the 
products I have worked on there is always more than 1 service running on 
the system.

> But again this has nothing do with the peer netns work.  So if you have
> something practical to contribute please start a new thread.

Sure, I'll start a new thread.

Thanks,
David