Re: [RFD] L2 Network namespace infrastructure

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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Will we be able to have a single application be in multiple name-spaces?

A single application certainly.   But then an application can be composed
of multiple processes which can be composed of multiple threads.

In my current patches a single task_struct belongs to a single network
namespace.  That namespace is used when creating sockets.  The sockets
themselves have a namespace tag and that is used when transmitting
packets, or otherwise operating on the socket.

So if you pass a socket from one process to another you can have
sockets that belong to different network namespaces in a single task.
Any chance it could allow one to use a single threaded, single process and do something like
int fd1 = socket(...., namespace1);
int fd2 = socket(...., namespace2);

Or, maybe a sockopt or similar call to move a socket into a particular namespace?

I can certainly see it being useful to allow a default name-space per process, but it would be nice to also allow explicit assignment of a socket to a name-space for applications that want to span
a large number of name-spaces.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com


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