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Re: [RFC] network namespaces [message #6082 is a reply to message #6045]

Thu, 07 September 2006 18:29

ebiederm
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Registered: February 2006

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Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> writes:
>
> 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.

Yes, and even more it is hard to show that it will perform as well.
Although by dropping CAP_NET_ADMIN the actual runtime administration
is about the same.

> 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.

Agreed.

> 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.

NACK In a real level 3 implementation there is very little common code with
a layer 2 implementation. You don't need to muck with the socket handling
code as you are not allowed to dup addresses between containers. Look
at what Serge did that is layer 3.

A layer 3 isolation implementation should either be a new security module
or a new form of iptables. The problem with using the lsm is that it
seems to be an all or nothing mechanism so is a very coarse grained
tool for this job.

A layer 2 implementation (where you have network devices isolated and not sockets)
should be a namespace.

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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