From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dlstevens@us.ibm.com
Cc: xemul@openvz.org, devel@openvz.org, ebiederm@xmission.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][NETNS] Make ifindex generation per-namespace
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:12:11 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071009.131211.85410709.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF54650AF1.A1051792-ON8825736F.00588F0B-8825736F.00597D24@us.ibm.com>
From: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 09:18:25 -0700
> Ifindex's have to uniquely identify the interface (virtual or
> otherwise) to remote queriers (not just local applications), so
> unless you pay the price of separating all the SNMP MIBs per
> namespace too, it seems you'll need some way to remap these for SNMP
> queries, right?
I don't see how it can work even with per-namespace MIBs,
the interface indexes have to be unique per "system".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-09 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-09 12:19 [PATCH][NETNS] Make ifindex generation per-namespace Pavel Emelyanov
2007-10-09 14:48 ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-10-09 16:18 ` David Stevens
2007-10-09 17:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-09 20:11 ` David Miller
2007-10-09 21:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-09 21:17 ` David Miller
2007-10-09 20:12 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-10-09 17:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-10 8:55 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2007-10-10 18:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-10 18:34 ` Johannes Berg
2007-10-10 19:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-11 9:32 ` Johannes Berg
2007-10-11 17:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-09 20:12 ` David Miller
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