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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Subject: Re: [RFD] L2 Network namespace infrastructure
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:03:05 -0700
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Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>   
>> Will we be able to have a single application be in multiple name-spaces?
>>     
>
> That would break the whole point of namespaces...
>   
I was hoping that I could open a socket in one name-space and another in 
another name
space, and send traffic between them, within a single application.  This 
is basically what I can do now with my
send-to-self patch and (for more clever virtual-routing schemes + NAT, 
with a conn-track
patch that Patrick cooked up for me).  It seems these patches I use are 
not acceptable
for merge, so I was hoping name-spaces might work instead.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> 
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com