From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [PATCH][NETNS] Make ifindex generation per-namespace Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:43:58 -0600 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Pavel Emelyanov , David Miller , devel@openvz.org, Linux Netdev List , netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: David Stevens Return-path: Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:48682 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753041AbXJIRoc (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:44:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: (David Stevens's message of "Tue, 9 Oct 2007 09:18:25 -0700") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David Stevens writes: > Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what is the model you intend for > SNMP? Do you want each namespace to be its own virtual machine with > its own, separate MIB? Each network namespace appears to user space as a completely separate network stack. So yes a separate instance of the MIB is appropriate. Eric