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From: Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: [RFC] network namespaces
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:11:35 +0400
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On Sunday 10 September 2006 07:41, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I certainly agree that we are not at a point where a final decision
> can be made.  A major piece of that is that a layer 2 approach has
> not shown to be without a performance penalty.
But it is required. Why to limit possible usages?
 
> A practical question.  Do the IPs assigned to guests ever get used
> by anything besides the guest?
In case of level2 virtualization - no.

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Thanks,
Dmitry.