Kernel protocol and different namespaces

[Alexander Zubkov]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 5:44 PM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
>
> Alexander Zubkov <green at qrator.net> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > We want to use bird with different namespaces too, but proposed
> > changes is not an option for us anyway because of somewhat proprietary
> > kernel we are working with (there are some missing definitions for
> > namespaces in headers and vanilla does not fit). So we are also
> > thinking about several instances of bird as Maria Jan Matějka
> > suggests. But we need to find some way to interconnect them. But we
> > think creating a veth interface is not a best option for us.
>
> Why not?

We do not want direct routing between namespaces. And also add some
additional interfaces - it is a hardware switch, so it could disturb
something. But may be not. This could be an option too. I just wrote
that it could be not the best one. We have not tested yet, just
considering possibilities.

>
> -Toke