On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:44:30PM -0400, Chuck wrote: > On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:18, Bruno wrote: > > > oh .. to complete the explanation on our systems a guest would never > address more than a single /24 but with the limitation that has to be > divided among a gazillion guests instead..
last time I checked, a /24 (or class C network) had 256 addresses (with 254 usable for ips) not a gazillion :) this aside, we will add it soon, but you can (for now) just apply one of the 64address patches, to kernel and tools, as I doubt it will cause much overhead ... HTH, Herbert > > On Thursday 14 September 2006 16:27, Chuck wrote: > > > someone mentioned the possibility of getting a setup on current > > > vserver code that would take a /24 network and not have much if > > > any slowdown.. has this ever been realized? > > > > I did some coding in that direction, but patch is not finished yet. > > Hopefully I will get some more time after next week do continue > > coding on it. > > > > My direction is assigning address elements to guests, either single > > addresses or groups of addresses as range or mask. When there > > is more than a single such item, on additional is created that > > itentifies the complete range contaning the addresses of a guest. > > Thus two guests with 20 IPs spread over two different /24 networks > > wil be seen as a single range for most check wether IP is part of > > the guest's address-space. Only on match of that outer boundary > > checking of the idividual addresses or the guest is done. Mostly > > missing is the handling of broadcast... > > > > Bruno > > _______________________________________________ > > Vserver mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > > > > -- > > Chuck > > "...and the hordes of M$*ft users descended upon me in their anger, > and asked 'Why do you not get the viruses or the BlueScreensOfDeath > or insecure system troubles and slowness or pay through the nose > for an OS as *we* do?!!', and I answered...'I use Linux'. " > The Book of John, chapter 1, page 1, and end of book > > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
