From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [patch 2/6] [Network namespace] Network device sharing by view Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:53:23 -0400 Message-ID: <1151502803.5203.101.camel@jzny2> References: <20060627133849.E13959@castle.nmd.msu.ru> <44A1149E.6060802@fr.ibm.com> <20060627160241.GB28984@MAIL.13thfloor.at> <44A1689B.7060809@candelatech.com> <20060627225213.GB2612@MAIL.13thfloor.at> <1151449973.24103.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060627234210.GA1598@ms2.inr.ac.ru> <20060628133640.GB5088@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov , viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, sam@vilain.net, devel@openvz.org, dev@sw.ru, Andrew Morton , clg@fr.ibm.com, serue@us.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrey Savochkin , Daniel Lezcano , Ben Greear , Dave Hansen , Alexey Kuznetsov , "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: Received: from mx02.cybersurf.com ([209.197.145.105]:42915 "EHLO mx02.cybersurf.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750749AbWF1Nxm (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:53:42 -0400 To: Herbert Poetzl In-Reply-To: <20060628133640.GB5088@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2006-28-06 at 15:36 +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > note: personally I'm absolutely not against virtualizing > the device names so that each guest can have a separate > name space for devices, but there should be a way to > 'see' _and_ 'identify' the interfaces from outside > (i.e. host or spectator context) > Makes sense for the host side to have naming convention tied to the guest. Example as a prefix: guest0-eth0. Would it not be interesting to have the host also manage these interfaces via standard tools like ip or ifconfig etc? i.e if i admin up guest0-eth0, then the user in guest0 will see its eth0 going up. Anyways, interesting discussion. cheers, jamal