Re: [linux-vrf-core] vrfctl integrated into iproute2

[James R. L. <jl...@mi...>]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 02:07:13PM +0200, Alex Peuchert wrote:
> Hi James,
> I added VRF capability to the netcat (nc) tool. Are you interested in this?

As far as accepting patches for utilities, it depends on whether or not
the util will work correctly with 'chvrf'.  'chvrf' runs a command within
a vrf. Any children of this process will inherit that vrf.

Does netcat work correctly with 'chvrf'?

> Then I have two other questions:
> 1) the loopback interface is only accessible within the VRF it is assigned
> to ... shouldn't every VRF have it's one loopback interface?

Hmmm.  This is very interesting.  What do you think about allowing the
lo interface to be part of every VRF?  Otherwise I guess you could
make dummy interfaces, place them in the vrfs then add 127.0.0.1 to them.

> 2) the linux vrf-kernel in your P4 directory is a 2.4.20. How about updating
> to 2.4.22(should be quite easy) or maybe 2.6(don't know if networking code
> changed)?

Have you tries applying the existing patch to 2.4.22?  Does it apply clean?
If not, I'll figure out how to clean it up for 2.4.22.

I know 2.6.x is going to be a big change.  As soon as UML is working cleanly
with 2.6.x then I will create a 2.6.x based development environment, and
work on converting all of my projects to 2.6.x.

> 
> - alex

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