Re: Current state of Network Namespaces (NETNS, CLONE_NEWNET)?

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Wed Nov 19 2008 - 21:46:55 EST


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 05:37:35PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > 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?
>
> No. It is fairly close though and there is general agreement
> on what it is.
>
> ipv4 and ipv6 are mostly complete and useable.
> ip tables support is in progress.

iptables will be mostly complete in 2.6.28.
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