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From: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini05@gmail•com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	shm@cumulusnetworks•com, roopa@cumulusnetworks•com,
	Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks•com>,
	jtoppins@cumulusnetworks•com, nikolay@cumulusnetworks•com,
	ddutt@cumulusnetworks•com,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion•org>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>,
	hadi@mojatatu•com, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission•com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 3/6] net: Introduce VRF device driver - v2
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 11:19:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <559EAD2A.2090002@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACP96tTyw+J7swi-+GJMwKKVjE9Uk1dJ3m_JKg2o1tyZup+p0w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Sowmini:

On 7/8/15 12:34 PM, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
> Perhaps I misunderstand the design proposal here, but a switch's VRF
> is essentially just a separate routing table, whose input and output interfaces
> are exclusively bound to the VRF.

yes, and this model follows that.

>
> Can an application in the model above get visibiltiy into the (enslaved?)
> interfaces in the vrf?

yes. e.g., 'ip link show' prints the vrf device it is enslaved to:

6: swp3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE> mtu 1500 qdisc noop master vrf10 
state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
     link/ether 52:54:00:12:35:03 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
7: swp4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE> mtu 1500 qdisc noop master vrf10 
state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
     link/ether 52:54:00:12:35:04 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
8: swp5: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE> mtu 1500 qdisc noop master vrf10 
state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
     link/ether 52:54:00:12:35:05 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
9: swp6: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE> mtu 1500 qdisc noop master vrf10 
state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000


> Can an application use IP_PKTINFO to send a packet out of
> a specific interface on a selected VRF? What about receiving
> IP_PKTINFO about input interface?

On the to-do list to use cmsg to specify a VRF for outbound packets 
using non-connected sockets. I do not believe it is going to work, but 
need to look into it.

> What about setting ipsec policy for interfaces in the vrf?
>

similarly, need to look at ipsec use cases with this vrf model.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-09 17:19 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 [this message]
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 ` [RFC net-next 0/6] Proposal for VRF-lite - v2 Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-06 17:53   ` Shrijeet Mukherjee
2015-07-08  9:30     ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-10  5:14 ` Scott Feldman

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