From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini05@gmail.com>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VRFs and the scalability of namespaces
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:43:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5429EEAF.9030702@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54299019.3050604@candelatech.com>
On 9/29/14, 11:00 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 09/29/2014 09:50 AM, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
>>> On 09/29/2014 06:06 AM, David Ahern wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> We have implemented support for at least most of this (excepting duplicate IPs)
>>> using routing tables, rules, and (optionally, xorp as the router).
>>>
>>
>> My undertanding of multiple routing-tables/rules was that they
>> are closer in semantics to switch/router ACLs than to VRFs, eg.,
>> one big difference is that an interface can belong to exactly one
>> VRF at a time, which is not mandated by multiple routing-tables/rules.
>>
>> Was I mistaken?
>
> You can effectively force an interface to belong to a particular virtual
> router (table). It is not trivial to do, and possibly I have still not
> covered every possible case. Some rules grow somewhat exponentially as
> interfaces are added to virtual routers (ie, preference 10 rules).
An interesting way of doing it; thanks for the reference point.
Fundamentally the design should be able to assign interfaces to a single
VRF, support duplicate IP addresses on different interfaces in different
VRFs and be able to scale to 10,000+ netdevices -- devices representing
physical ports as well as logical interfaces built on top of them (e.g.,
sub-interfaces).
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-29 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-26 22:37 VRFs and the scalability of namespaces David Ahern
2014-09-26 23:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-09-27 0:00 ` David Ahern
2014-09-27 1:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-09-29 12:34 ` David Ahern
2014-09-27 13:29 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-09-27 14:09 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-09-29 13:06 ` David Ahern
2014-09-29 16:40 ` Ben Greear
2014-09-29 16:50 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2014-09-29 17:00 ` Ben Greear
2014-09-29 23:43 ` David Ahern [this message]
2014-09-29 23:50 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-09-30 1:15 ` Ben Greear
2014-09-29 18:05 ` Cong Wang
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