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Subject: Netmap/VALE
From: Stan Ratliff <ratliffstan@gmail.com>
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Hello,

If my questions are naive, I apologize. However, I would like to look into
moving traffic between Linux network namespaces (or rather, LXC-based
applications running in a network name space) via VALE/Netmap. Since the
namespaces only work with a "veth<n>" interface, are those already
supported in Netmap/VALE? I'm not able to find any documentation on whether
that is do-able. Also, if Netmap/VALE currently don't support the "veth"
interfaces, how would I go about creating that support?

Regards,
Stan