[Devel] Re: [PATCH][NETNS] Make ifindex generation per-namespace

[David Miller]

From: David Stevens <dlstevens at us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 09:18:25 -0700

> Ifindex's have to uniquely identify the interface (virtual or
> otherwise) to remote queriers (not just local applications), so
> unless you pay the price of separating all the SNMP MIBs per
> namespace too, it seems you'll need some way to remap these for SNMP
> queries, right?

I don't see how it can work even with per-namespace MIBs,
the interface indexes have to be unique per "system".