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Re: [RFC] network namespaces [message #5939 is a reply to message #5915]

Tue, 05 September 2006 17:09

ebiederm
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Registered: February 2006

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> This family of containers are used too for HPC (high performance computing) and
> for distributed checkpoint/restart. The cluster runs hundred of jobs, spawning
> them on different hosts inside an application container. Usually the jobs
> communicates with broadcast and multicast.
> Application containers does not care of having different MAC address and rely on
> a layer 3 approach.

Ok I think to understand this we need some precise definitions.
In the normal case it is an error for a job to communication with a different
job.

The basic advantage with a different MAC is that you can found out who the
intended recipient is sooner in the networking stack and you have truly
separate network devices. Allowing for a cleaner implementation.

Changing the MAC after migration is likely to be fine.

> Are application containers comfortable with a layer 2 virtualization ? I don't
> think so, because several jobs running inside the same host communicate via
> broadcast/multicast between them and between other jobs running on different
> hosts. The IP consumption is a problem too: 1 container == 2 IP (one for the
> root namespace/ one for the container), multiplicated with the number of
> jobs. Furthermore, lot of jobs == lot of virtual devices.

First if you hook you network namespaces with ethernet bridging
you don't need any extra IPs.

Second don't see the conflict you perceive between application containers
and layer 2 containment.

The bottom line is that you need at least one loopback interface per non-trivial
network namespace. One you get that having a virtual is no big deal. In
addition network devices don't consume less memory than a process. So lots
of network devices should not be a problem.

Eric

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		[RFC] network namespaces By: Andrey Savochkin on Tue, 15 August 2006 14:20
		[PATCH 1/9] network namespaces: core and device list By: Andrey Savochkin on Tue, 15 August 2006 14:48
		Re: [PATCH 1/9] network namespaces: core and device list By: Dave Hansen on Wed, 16 August 2006 14:46
		Re: [PATCH 1/9] network namespaces: core and device list By: Stephen Hemminger on Wed, 16 August 2006 16:45
		[PATCH 2/9] network namespaces: IPv4 routing By: Andrey Savochkin on Tue, 15 August 2006 14:48
		[PATCH 6/9] allow proc_dir_entries to have destructor By: Andrey Savochkin on Tue, 15 August 2006 14:48
		[PATCH 5/9] network namespaces: async socket operations By: Andrey Savochkin on Tue, 15 August 2006 14:48
		Re: [PATCH 5/9] network namespaces: async socket operations By: Daniel Lezcano on Fri, 22 September 2006 15:33
		Re: [PATCH 5/9] network namespaces: async socket operations By: Andrey Savochkin on Sat, 23 September 2006 13:16
		[PATCH 7/9] net_device seq_file By: Andrey Savochkin on Tue, 15 August 2006 14:48
		[PATCH 8/9] network namespaces: device to pass packets between namespaces By: Andrey Savochkin on Tue, 15 August 2006 14:48
		[PATCH 4/9] network namespaces: socket hashes By: Andrey Savochkin on Tue, 15 August 2006 14:48
		Re: [PATCH 4/9] network namespaces: socket hashes By: Daniel Lezcano on Mon, 18 September 2006 15:12
		Re: [PATCH 4/9] network namespaces: socket hashes By: Andrey Savochkin on Wed, 20 September 2006 16:32
		Re: [PATCH 4/9] network namespaces: socket hashes By: Daniel Lezcano on Thu, 21 September 2006 12:34
		[PATCH 9/9] network namespaces: playing with pass-through device By: Andrey Savochkin on Tue, 15 August 2006 14:48
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: serue on Wed, 16 August 2006 11:53
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Alexey Kuznetsov on Wed, 16 August 2006 15:12
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: ebiederm on Wed, 16 August 2006 17:35
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: dev on Thu, 17 August 2006 08:28
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Daniel Lezcano on Tue, 05 September 2006 13:34
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: ebiederm on Tue, 05 September 2006 14:45
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Herbert Poetzl on Tue, 05 September 2006 16:53
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Daniel Lezcano on Wed, 06 September 2006 09:10
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Herbert Poetzl on Wed, 06 September 2006 16:56
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: kir on Wed, 06 September 2006 17:36
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: ebiederm on Wed, 06 September 2006 18:34
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: kir on Wed, 06 September 2006 18:56
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Cedric Le Goater on Wed, 06 September 2006 20:53
		RE: [RFC] network namespaces By: Caitlin Bestler on Wed, 06 September 2006 23:06
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Daniel Lezcano on Thu, 07 September 2006 08:25
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: ebiederm on Thu, 07 September 2006 18:29
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Herbert Poetzl on Fri, 08 September 2006 06:02
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: dev on Thu, 07 September 2006 16:20
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Herbert Poetzl on Thu, 07 September 2006 17:27
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Mishin Dmitry on Fri, 08 September 2006 13:10
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Herbert Poetzl on Fri, 08 September 2006 18:11
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Mishin Dmitry on Sat, 09 September 2006 07:57
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Herbert Poetzl on Sun, 10 September 2006 02:47
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Mishin Dmitry on Sun, 10 September 2006 07:45
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Herbert Poetzl on Sun, 10 September 2006 19:22
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: ebiederm on Tue, 12 September 2006 03:26
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: ebiederm on Sun, 10 September 2006 03:41
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Mishin Dmitry on Sun, 10 September 2006 08:11
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Herbert Poetzl on Sun, 10 September 2006 19:19
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Daniel Lezcano on Mon, 11 September 2006 14:40
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Herbert Poetzl on Mon, 11 September 2006 14:57
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Daniel Lezcano on Mon, 11 September 2006 15:04
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Mishin Dmitry on Mon, 11 September 2006 15:10
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: ebiederm on Tue, 12 September 2006 03:28
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Mishin Dmitry on Tue, 12 September 2006 07:38
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: ebiederm on Thu, 07 September 2006 19:50
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Daniel Lezcano on Wed, 06 September 2006 21:44
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: ebiederm on Wed, 06 September 2006 17:58
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: ebiederm on Tue, 05 September 2006 18:27
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: dev on Wed, 06 September 2006 14:52
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Daniel Lezcano on Tue, 05 September 2006 15:32
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: dev on Tue, 05 September 2006 15:44
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: ebiederm on Tue, 05 September 2006 17:09
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Cedric Le Goater on Wed, 06 September 2006 20:25
		Re: Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: kir on Wed, 06 September 2006 15:09
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: ebiederm on Wed, 06 September 2006 20:40
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: ebiederm on Wed, 06 September 2006 23:25
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Stephen Hemminger on Thu, 07 September 2006 00:53
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: ebiederm on Thu, 07 September 2006 05:11
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: Daniel Lezcano on Wed, 04 October 2006 09:40
		Re: [RFC] network namespaces By: ebiederm on Sun, 10 September 2006 11:48

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