From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Dichtel Subject: Re: [Patch net] macvlan: add NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL flag Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:47:15 +0100 Message-ID: <52FB4323.7020608@6wind.com> References: <1392082593-7742-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> <20140211014535.GA11150@order.stressinduktion.org> <20140211024009.GD11150@order.stressinduktion.org> <1392092120.6615.64.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> Reply-To: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Cong Wang , Cong Wang , netdev , Patrick McHardy , "David S. Miller" To: Eric Dumazet , Hannes Frederic Sowa Return-path: Received: from mail-ee0-f43.google.com ([74.125.83.43]:42330 "EHLO mail-ee0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751837AbaBLJrT (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Feb 2014 04:47:19 -0500 Received: by mail-ee0-f43.google.com with SMTP id c41so4165648eek.2 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 01:47:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1392092120.6615.64.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le 11/02/2014 05:15, Eric Dumazet a =C3=A9crit : > On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 03:40 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > >> Setting up a macvlan and moving it into another namespace without mo= ving >> the parent device is a nice feature. I am not an administrator, so I= don't >> use that stuff often, but given you can easily spawn namespaces and = put >> applications into them, one of the easiest things to connect those t= o >> local network without routing over veth and such is the macvlan inte= rface. > > Exactly. I also agree.