Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:36:25 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] multiple instances of ipfw(4) Message-ID: <jg69t9$6rj$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <CAPBZQG32iyzkec4PG%2Bqay9bKfd0GiffKyRBapLkATKvHr7cVww@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPBZQG32iyzkec4PG%2Bqay9bKfd0GiffKyRBapLkATKvHr7cVww@mail.gmail.com>
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On 30/01/2012 13:01, Ermal Luçi wrote: > Surely i know that this is not the best way to implement generically ... probably, because it's similar to VNET... > What i would like to know is if there is interest to see such > functionality in FreeBSD? > > I am asking first to see if there is some consensus about this as a > feature, needed or not! > If interest is shown i will transform the patch to allow: > - ipfw(8) to manage the contextes create/destroy > - ipfw(8) to manage interface membership. Closing the race of two > parallell clients modifying different contextes. > It is quite handy feature, which can be exploited even to scale on SMP > machines by extending it to bind a specific instance(with its > interaces) to a specific CPU/core?! ... which is also done by VNET+JAILS. You should probably port it to VNET :)
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