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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][NETNS] Make ifindex generation per-namespace
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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".