Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754508AbYKTHyy (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:54:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753592AbYKTHyp (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:54:45 -0500 Received: from mtagate1.de.ibm.com ([195.212.17.161]:44040 "EHLO mtagate1.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753149AbYKTHyo (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:54:44 -0500 Message-ID: <492517BC.3050205@fr.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:54:36 +0100 From: Daniel Lezcano User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Kerrisk CC: Pavel Emelyanov , David Miller , "Eric W. Biederman" , lkml , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Subrata Modak , Stephen Hemminger , adobriyan@gmail.com, Patrick McHardy , den@openvz.org Subject: Re: Current state of Network Namespaces (NETNS, CLONE_NEWNET)? References: <492489D1.5080502@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <492489D1.5080502@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1370 Lines: 45 Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Sorry for the shotgun mail, but in the end, it's > not clear who can best answer my question(s). > > I'm currently trying to add documentation of all of > the undocumented CLONE_* flags. One of these is > CLONE_NEWNET, and I could use (quite a lot of) help. > > My questions: > > What is the current state of the network namespace > implementation? Is it complete? It is not complete but mostly usable for ipv4 and ipv6. There is a network namespace status I filled at: http://lxc.sourceforge.net/network/status.php It should be up-to-date. > What objects are considered part of the network > namespace, and therefore distinct for a new network > namespace? The network namespace brings isolation from the layer-2 to upper layers. > Is there any documentation for network namespaces > already? http://lxc.sourceforge.net/network.php http://lxc.sourceforge.net/doc/sigops/appcr.pdf > Are there any test programs for network namespaces? http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxc/ follow the README page. It is still in development but mainly usable - any feedbacks are welcome :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/