From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com>
To: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks•com>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Cc: shm@cumulusnetworks•com, roopa@cumulusnetworks•com,
gospo@cumulusnetworks•com, jtoppins@cumulusnetworks•com,
nikolay@cumulusnetworks•com, ddutt@cumulusnetworks•com,
hannes@stressinduktion•org, stephen@networkplumber•org,
hadi@mojatatu•com, ebiederm@xmission•com, davem@davemloft•net
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 0/6] Proposal for VRF-lite - v2
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:40:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <559AA187.6000007@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436195001-4818-1-git-send-email-dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Le 06/07/2015 17:03, David Ahern a écrit :
> In the context of internet scale routing a requirement that always
> comes up is the need to partition the available routing tables into
> disjoint routing planes. A specific use case is the multi-tenancy
> problem where each tenant has their own unique routing tables and in
> the very least need different default gateways.
>
> This is an attempt to build the ability to create virtual router
> domains aka VRF's (VRF-lite to be specific) in the linux packet
> forwarding stack. The main observation is that through the use of
> rules and socket binding to interfaces, all the facilities that we
> need are already present in the infrastructure. What is missing is a
> handle that identifies a routing domain and can be used to gather
> applicable rules/tables and uniqify neighbor selection. The scheme
> used needs to preserves the notions of ECMP, and general routing
> principles.
[snip]
> drivers/net/vrf.c | 486 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
[snip]
I'm still opposed to name this 'vrf', see the v1 thread:
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg332357.html
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg332376.html
Shrijeet seemed to agree to rename it, is there a problem?
Regards,
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-06 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-06 15:03 [RFC net-next 0/6] Proposal for VRF-lite - v2 David Ahern
2015-07-06 15:03 ` [RFC net-next 1/6] fib: export symbols David Ahern
2015-07-06 15:03 ` [RFC net-next 2/6] net: Preparation for vrf device David Ahern
2015-07-08 8:37 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-08 8:40 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-08 16:10 ` David Ahern
2015-07-06 15:03 ` [RFC net-next 3/6] net: Introduce VRF device driver - v2 David Ahern
2015-07-06 15:42 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-06 16:37 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-07-06 16:46 ` David Ahern
2015-07-08 9:27 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-08 16:38 ` David Ahern
2015-07-08 18:34 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-07-09 17:19 ` David Ahern
2015-07-09 17:28 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-07-10 1:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-07-10 2:12 ` David Ahern
2015-07-10 3:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-07-10 4:20 ` David Ahern
2015-07-10 4:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-07-10 18:42 ` David Ahern
2015-07-10 2:39 ` David Ahern
2015-07-10 3:28 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-07-10 3:44 ` David Ahern
2015-07-06 15:03 ` [RFC net-next 4/6] net: Modifications to ipv4 stack for VRF devices David Ahern
2015-07-06 15:03 ` [RFC net-next 5/6] net: Add sk_bind_dev_if to task_struct David Ahern
2015-07-06 15:03 ` [RFC net-next 6/6] net: Add chvrf command David Ahern
2015-07-06 15:03 ` [RFC PATCH] iproute2: Add support for VRF device David Ahern
2015-07-06 15:40 ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2015-07-06 17:53 ` [RFC net-next 0/6] Proposal for VRF-lite - v2 Shrijeet Mukherjee
2015-07-08 9:30 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-10 5:14 ` Scott Feldman
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