From: Laszlo Attila Toth <panther@balabit.hu>
To: hadi@cyberus.ca
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Resend: [IPROUTE2 PATCH] Interface group as new ip link option
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:05:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47149B04.30607@balabit.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1192531516.4480.33.camel@localhost>
jamal írta:
> On Tue, 2007-16-10 at 11:03 +0200, Laszlo Attila Toth wrote:
>> Interfaces can be grouped and each group has an unique positive integer ID.
>> It can be set via ip link.
>
> Feature request: Can you also implement a get operation. Perhaps
> something that returns from the kernel a list of ifindices when one
> passes a group to it?
That sounds great but for what whould you like to use? It may help me
for the implementation. Currently it is not available since the the
net_device structure holds the group id and for this get operation an
iteration (of net_devices) may be necessary...
>
> BTW, does it make sense to have one interface in multiple groups?
We didn't want to use multiple groups in favour of masked group ids.
What kind of usage needs other implementation?
--
Attila
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-16 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <ifgroup.20071015.1192520046.panther@balabit.hu>
2007-10-16 8:01 ` [PATCH 0/2] Interface groups Laszlo Attila Toth
2007-10-16 8:01 ` Laszlo Attila Toth
2007-10-16 8:50 ` Philip Craig
2007-10-16 9:47 ` Laszlo Attila Toth
[not found] ` <1824b3d462b1d85aaf33941cf082c4e018d5bff7.1192460167.git.panther@balabit.hu>
2007-10-16 8:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] Interface group: core (netlink) part Laszlo Attila Toth
2007-10-16 8:01 ` Laszlo Attila Toth
2007-10-16 8:34 ` Patrick McHardy
[not found] ` <661f8f2fdb86cc70bdefd12403ecb0eaa7cfadd6.1192460168.git.panther@balabit.hu>
2007-10-16 8:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] Interface group match - netfilter part Laszlo Attila Toth
2007-10-16 8:01 ` Laszlo Attila Toth
2007-10-16 8:30 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-10-16 9:46 ` Laszlo Attila Toth
2007-10-16 14:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-17 9:08 ` Laszlo Attila Toth
2007-10-17 9:11 ` Patrick McHardy
[not found] ` <a6713ba13c49b7fa20073d8abf1862480c2799e0.1192457385.git.panther@balabit.hu>
2007-10-16 8:01 ` [IPROUTE2 PATCH] Interface group as new ip link option Laszlo Attila Toth
2007-10-16 8:38 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-10-16 9:33 ` Laszlo Attila Toth
2007-10-16 8:01 ` Laszlo Attila Toth
2007-10-16 9:03 ` Resend: " Laszlo Attila Toth
2007-10-16 9:11 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-10-16 9:03 ` Laszlo Attila Toth
2007-10-16 10:45 ` jamal
2007-10-16 11:05 ` Laszlo Attila Toth [this message]
2007-10-16 11:26 ` jamal
2007-10-16 11:47 ` Laszlo Attila Toth
2007-10-16 12:08 ` jamal
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