Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Makes sense for the host side to have naming convention tied >> to the guest. Example as a prefix: guest0-eth0. Would it not >> be interesting to have the host also manage these interfaces >> via standard tools like ip or ifconfig etc? i.e if i admin up >> guest0-eth0, then the user in guest0 will see its eth0 going >> up. >> > Please no. > [...] > Now I am open to radically different designs if they allow the > implementation cost to be lower and they have clean semantics, > and don't wind up being an ugly unmaintainable wart on the linux > networking stack. The only route I could imagine such a thing coming > from is something like tagging flows, in some netfiler like way. > Which might allow ifconfig guest-eth0 from the host without problems. > But I have not seen such a design. > Right. New tools to support new features would probably be tidier, anyway. Sam. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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