[PATCH] multiple instances of ipfw(4)

[Ermal Luçi]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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...
>
It depends on the comparison.
The same argument would hold true for multiple routing tables but
still they coexist.
Both usages have their scopes.

>
>> 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 :)

See above.
Nevertheless, VNET is still not production use so....

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Ermal