Re: Support for VRF in NFS?

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On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 09:08:16PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/07/2018 05:14 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 01:03:54PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I made a stab at implementing VRF support in NFS, but it appears
> >>fairly complicated and I ended up reverting my changes....
> >>
> >>Is anyone working on this?
> >>
> >>And, if not, if anyone would like to be sponsored to work on this, please
> >>let me know.
> >
> >Um, sorry--what's VRF?
> 
> Virtual Router logic.  It is sort of like network stack containers,
> and has been solid and fully featured in the kernel since 4.16 or so.
> 
> In the end, you effectively need to call the logic that SO_BINDTODEVICE
> calls on the socket before binding to an IP.
> 
> The NFS and RPC logic is a giant tangled mess to my eyes, so
> hoping I could bribe someone else to do it :)

So it's not enough to support network namespaces?

What's your motivation for this?

--b.



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