[Devel] Re: [RFC] network namespaces

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Wed Sep 6 22:11:27 PDT 2006


Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at osdl.org> writes:

> The problem with VNIC's is it won't work for all devices (without lots of
> work), and for many device's it requires putting the device in promiscuous
> mode. It also plays havoc with network access control devices.

Which is fine.  If it works it is a cool performance optimization.
But it doesn't stop anything from my side if it doesn't.

Eric




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