To: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
       Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
       Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com>, Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>,
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       saw@sawoct.com, devel@openvz.org, Dmitry Mishin <dim@sw.ru>,
       Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: The issues for agreeing on a virtualization/namespaces
 implementation.
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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:46:26 -0700
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Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> writes:

> yep, that's what the first network virtualization for
> Linux-VServer aimed at, but found too complicated
> the second one uses 'pairs' of communicating devices
> to send between guests/host

Well you need the pairs of course, to communication between
the two stack ``instances''.

>> With that rule dealing with the network stack is just a matter of
>> making some currently global variables/data structures per container.
>
> yep, like the universal loopback and so ...

:)

Eric
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