Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv4: add ICMP socket kind

From: Vasiliy Kulikov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:03:18 +0300

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 00:32 +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
> We use OpenVZ containers
> heavily, and we don't want to run an instance of such process per
> container (up to a few hundred per system).

Besides memory usage daemons cannot allocate reliably unique icmp echo
identifiers as they don't know anything about already assigned idents.

Thanks,

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Vasiliy Kulikov
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