Re: Implementing VRFs in linux kernel

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Thanks for your input. I did start looking into network namespaces. The 
documentation I 

could find for it is very limited and based on the limited documentation, it 
seems from a 

user space perspective, the set of processes have to be bound to a namespace 
which 

does notseems to be a scalable solution. Also it is not clear to me how a socket 
can bind
to a namespace. I have not had a chance to dig deeper into the kernel code to do 
more 

investigation, but I am planning to do it. But at the first look, namespace 
seems to be not 

well suited for applications like VRFs and it seems to be more of a system 
virtualization
solution.




----- Original Message ----
From: Peter Chacko <peterchacko35@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sambath Kumar Balasubramanian <sambath_kumar_b@xxxxxxxxx>; 
linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sun, September 12, 2010 7:33:53 AM
Subject: Re: Implementing VRFs in linux kernel

Network-name spaces are good for VRF ? Another question is is there
any active, Linux  MPLS VPN project ?

would appreciate your thoughts.

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Stephen Hemminger
<shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:03:29 -0700 (PDT)
> Sambath Kumar Balasubramanian <sambath_kumar_b@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>   Is there an implementation for VRFs (virtual routing and forwarding) in the
>> linux
>>
>> kernel. Currently the linux kernel supports multiple routing table  but this
>> needs
>>
>> to be enhanced with abilities for applications to bind a socket to a routing
>> table,
>>
>> support for multiple neighbor tables and inherent support for duplicate IP
>> addresses
>>
>> across different VRFs.
>>
>> Is there any linux project that will provide the above mentioned support? If
>> there
>> were to be work done in this area, will it acceptable in the mainline kernel?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sambath
>
> Have you considered network namespaces?
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