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? > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
