Re: [Lxc-users] VALE as networking option in LXC

2013-04-17 Thread Natale Patriciello
On 17/04/13 at 10:29am, Zhu Yanhai wrote: > > It should be ok, did you restart the container after config file change? Or > maybe it's because you drop CAP_SYS_MODULE or CAP_MKNOD in the config file > by mistake? > You're right, I had CAP_MKNOD dropped. First results shows that, with netmap, I h

Re: [Lxc-users] VALE as networking option in LXC

2013-04-17 Thread Natale Patriciello
On 16/04/13 at 06:45pm, Zhu Yanhai wrote: > I think the 'tcp friends' feature in the latest upstream kernel can do the > same thing with it. See http://lwn.net/Articles/511254/. > Actually, I'm focused to lower layers (in particular ethernet layer), so any improvements to TCP doesn't fit well into

Re: [Lxc-users] VALE as networking option in LXC

2013-04-16 Thread Zhu Yanhai
2013/4/16 Natale Patriciello > On 16/04/13 at 06:45pm, Zhu Yanhai wrote: > > I think the 'tcp friends' feature in the latest upstream kernel can do > the > > same thing with it. See http://lwn.net/Articles/511254/. > > > > Actually, I'm focused to lower layers (in particular ethernet layer), so >

Re: [Lxc-users] VALE as networking option in LXC

2013-04-16 Thread Zhu Yanhai
2013/4/12 Natale Patriciello > Hi list, > > someone looked into the possibility to add VALE [1] as networking option ? > > VALE is a software Virtual Local Ethernet whose ports are accessible using > the netmap API [2], designed to be used as the interconnect between virtual > machines (or as a f

[Lxc-users] VALE as networking option in LXC

2013-04-12 Thread Natale Patriciello
Hi list, someone looked into the possibility to add VALE [1] as networking option ? VALE is a software Virtual Local Ethernet whose ports are accessible using the netmap API [2], designed to be used as the interconnect between virtual machines (or as a fast local bus), working as a learning bridg