Re: [Linux-vrf-general] [PATCH 0/6] netns: port linux-vrf features to network namespaces

[David M. <da...@da...>]

From: Vivien Chappelier <viv...@th...>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:35:56 +0100

>     The recently introduced network namespaces allow separate
>     standalone network stacks to coexist on the same machine. This
>     is a very useful functionality that we have been using in our
>     products for some time, through the VRF patchset
>     (http://linux-vrf.sourceforge.net/). The goal of the VRF
>     patchset and network namespaces are very similar, yet some
>     features of the VRF are missing that these patches intend to
>     provide.

I'll leave it up to the namespace folks to review this and decide whether
it makes sense to consider these changes seriously or not.