[PATCH netns-2.6.25 0/19] routing virtualization
From: Denis V. Lunev <hidden>
Date: 2007-12-19 15:21:51
Hi, David! This set adds namespace support for routing tables & rules manipulation in the different namespaces. So, one could create a namespace and setup IPv4 routing there how he wants. After this patch user will have the ability to configure and observe its own isolated set of routing rules/tables, but they all will be unused. I.e. routing decisions inside the network stack are still made based on the init_net's rules. The reason for doing so is to have something self-consistent and not too huge :) The sequence is the following: - viritualize generic FIB rules operations - change IPv4 FIB initialization sequence - virtualize FIB tables access After this, the 'ip' utility and the /proc interface will start working correctly inside a namespace, while the 'route' utility will not, because IP sockets currently cannot be created in non-init namespace. Regards, Den