From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
To: Kevin Wilson <wkevils@gmail.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fw: [Bug 66691] New: iproute2: macvlan: Wrong root device shown if in different netns
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 09:02:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131209080200.GC5355@unicorn.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXs5wXr-7vgmT39__cJ0xo3D4fFOkfmd4_C-5+zPAKGeWZugA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 11:18:52AM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> Shouldn't the macvlan be network nsmespace local device, like the vlan
> and VXLAN device (which have NETIF_F_NETNS set)?
> When a nework device has the NETIF_F_NETNS flag set, it cannot be
> moved from one network namespace to another.
I don't think so. A setup where a macvlan is in a different namespace is
used quite often, e.g. to provide a network device to an LXC container.
Michal Kubecek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-09 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-06 20:05 Fw: [Bug 66691] New: iproute2: macvlan: Wrong root device shown if in different netns Stephen Hemminger
[not found] ` <CAGXs5wXC+eTZD3sXD4zFtkpY8tcU14Kr6AiA9=kugHups_KCHA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-12-07 9:18 ` Kevin Wilson
2013-12-09 8:02 ` Michal Kubecek [this message]
2013-12-16 10:38 ` Helmut Schaa
2013-12-16 10:41 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2013-12-16 10:47 ` Helmut Schaa
2013-12-16 11:01 ` Pavel Emelyanov
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