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Re: [RFC] network namespaces [message #6045 is a reply to message #6027]

Thu, 07 September 2006 08:25

Daniel Lezcano
Messages: 417
Registered: June 2006

Senior Member

Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> ebiederm@xmission.com wrote:
>
>
>>>Finally, as I understand both network isolation and network
>>>virtualization (both level2 and level3) can happily co-exist. We do
>>>have several filesystems in kernel. Let's have several network
>>>virtualization approaches, and let a user choose. Is that makes
>>>sense?
>>
>>If there are not compelling arguments for using both ways of
>>doing it is silly to merge both, as it is more maintenance overhead.
>>
>
>
> My reading is that full virtualization (Xen, etc.) calls for
> implementing
> L2 switching between the partitions and the physical NIC(s).
>
> The tradeoffs between L2 and L3 switching are indeed complex, but
> there are two implications of doing L2 switching between partitions:
>
> 1) Do we really want to ask device drivers to support L2 switching for
> partitions and something *different* for containers?
>
> 2) Do we really want any single packet to traverse an L2 switch (for
> the partition-style virtualization layer) and then an L3 switch
> (for the container-style layer)?
>
> The full virtualization solution calls for virtual NICs with distinct
> MAC addresses. Is there any reason why this same solution cannot work
> for containers (just creating more than one VNIC for the partition,
> and then assigning each VNIC to a container?)

IHMO, I think there is one reason. The unsharing mechanism is not only
for containers, its aim other kind of isolation like a "bsdjail" for
example. The unshare syscall is flexible, shall the network unsharing be
one-block solution ? For example, we want to launch an application using
TCP/IP and we want to have an IP address only used by the application,
nothing more.
With a layer 2, we must after unsharing:
1) create a virtual device into the application namespace
2) assign an IP address
3) create a virtual device pass-through in the root namespace
4) set the virtual device IP

All this stuff, need a lot of administration (check mac addresses
conflicts, check interface names collision in root namespace, ...) for a
simple network isolation.

With a layer 3:
1) assign an IP address

In the other hand, a layer 3 isolation is not sufficient to reach the
level of isolation/virtualization needed for the system containers.

Very soon, I will commit more info at:

http://wiki.openvz.org/Containers/Networking

So the consensus is based on the fact that there is a lot of common code
for the layer 2 and layer 3 isolation/virtualization and we can find a
way to merge the 2 implementation in order to have a flexible network
virtualization/isolation.

-- Regards

Daniel.

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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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