On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 20:41 -0800, Cong Wang wrote: > Exactly broken by design. Design of what ? Do you have a pointer to a document about this 'design' ? > > IFA_LINK is an ifindex, ifindex is per-netns. macvlan should not use IFA_LINK. When this was 'designed', ifindex were not per netns. Apparently nobody spotted this when ifindexes become per netns. I am sure we can find a solution, keeping this very useful functionality. BTW, are Cong Wang <cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> different persons ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html