Le 18/11/2020 à 18:39, Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार) a écrit : > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 8:58 AM Nicolas Dichtel > <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com> wrote: >> >> Le 18/11/2020 à 02:12, David Ahern a écrit : >> [snip] >>> If there is no harm in just creating lo in the up state, why not just do >>> it vs relying on a sysctl? It only affects 'local' networking so no real >>> impact to containers that do not do networking (ie., packets can't >>> escape). Linux has a lot of sysctl options; is this one really needed? >>> > I started with that approach but then I was informed about these > containers that disable networking all together including loopback. > Also bringing up by default would break backward compatibility hence > resorted to sysctl. >> +1 >> >> And thus, it will benefit to everybody. > > Well, it benefits everyone who uses networking (most of us) inside Sure.
> netns but would create problems for workloads that create netns to > disable networking. One can always disable it after creating the netns > but that would mean change in the workflow and it could be viewed as > regression. The networking is very limited with only a loopback. Do you have some real use case in mind?
