Re: Implementing VRFs in linux kernel

[Peter Chacko <peterchacko35@xxxxxxxxx>]

Network-name spaces are good for VRF ? Another question is is there
any active, Linux  MPLS VPN project ?

would appreciate your thoughts.

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Stephen Hemminger
<shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:03:29 -0700 (PDT)
> Sambath Kumar Balasubramanian <sambath_kumar_b@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>   Is there an implementation for VRFs (virtual routing and forwarding) in the
>> linux
>>
>> kernel. Currently the linux kernel supports multiple routing table  but this
>> needs
>>
>> to be enhanced with abilities for applications to bind a socket to a routing
>> table,
>>
>> support for multiple neighbor tables and inherent support for duplicate IP
>> addresses
>>
>> across different VRFs.
>>
>> Is there any linux project that will provide the above mentioned support? If
>> there
>> were to be work done in this area, will it acceptable in the mainline kernel?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sambath
>
> Have you considered network namespaces?
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