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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:46:44 +0100
From: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch -mm] net namespace: empty framework
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> no problem here, but I think we will need another one,
> or some smart way to do the network isolation (layer 3)
> for the network namespace (as alternative to the layer 2
> approach) ...

My feeling (Dmitry and Daniel can correct me) is that it will be
addressed with an unshare-like flag : NETNS2 and NETNS3.
 
> as they are both complementary in some way, I'm not sure
> a single space will suffice ...

hmm, so you think there could be a 2 differents namespaces
for network to handle layer 2 or 3. Couldn't that be just a sub part
of net_namespace.

C.
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