From bbe7f75be515f03528bc01131378339f93851340 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ahrenholz Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:31:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added section about CORE kernel patches --- wiki/CustomKernels.wiki | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/wiki/CustomKernels.wiki b/wiki/CustomKernels.wiki index 2962818b..a03c09d2 100644 --- a/wiki/CustomKernels.wiki +++ b/wiki/CustomKernels.wiki @@ -2,6 +2,18 @@ = Linux Network Namespaces = +== CORE kernel patch == + +Even with the latest Linux kernels, not all networking features may be ready for use with network namespaces. Some kernel patches are available from the CORE team, check a source tarball under the `kernels/` directory. + +For example, CORE 4.2 includes a 2.6.38 kernel patch that addresses the following: + * virtualize the netfilter queue mechanism (allows iptables NFQUEUE targets) + * disable the flow cache (allows using IPsec between namespaces) + * virtualize network interface index numbers + +See the `README.txt` file that comes with the kernel patches. A `Makefile` may be included for easily building a deb kernel package. + + == Running a custom kernel PPA on Ubuntu == PPA = Personal Package Archive, an unsupported/bleeding-edge repository of deb packages.