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

[David Miller]

From: ebiederm at xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:00:10 -0600

> Regardless it is early yet and there is plenty of time to revisit this
> after we solved the easier and less controversial problems.

Ok.

I would encourage you to learn how the SNMP mibs work, and whether
they associate things with interfaces and/or unique MAC addresses.
The semantics may have conflicts with your envisioned cluster
abstraction.