[Devel] Re: Network namespaces a path to mergable code.

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Wed Jun 28 07:56:26 PDT 2006


"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue at us.ibm.com> writes:

> Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm at xmission.com):
>> > I think we're reaching the limits of namespaces. It would be much easier
>> > with a container id in each kernel object we want to isolate.
>> 
>> Nope.  Except for the fact that names are peculiar (sockets, network
>> device names, IP address, routes...) the network stack splits quite cleanly.
>> 
>> I did all of this in a proof of concept mode several months ago and
>> the code is still sitting in my git tree on kernel.org.  I even got
>> the generic stack reference counting fixed.
>> 
>> Eric
>
> Which branch?

It should be the proof-of-concept branch.  It is a development branch so the
history is ugly but the result was fairly decent.

Eric




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