Renzo Davoli
Associate professor @ University of Bologna
Renzo Davoli is a developer of libre software and associate professor at the Computer Science and Engineering
Departemnt, University of Bologna, Italy, where he teaches "Operating Systems", "Virtual System Design" and "Laboratory of
Making".
His goal is to prove that code can be research: he is considered to be too much a researcher by developers, and too much a developer
by researchers. So he feels to have found the right mid-point.
He publishes papers on research conferences and journals and at the same time he gives talks at FOSDEM and has released projects
currently included in all major gnu-Linux distributions.
He is leading the development and evolution of several ideas including Virtual Distributed Ethernet (VDE), Internet of Thread (IoTh),
Hash based IPv6 address self-configuration, view-OS.
Talks
| 2017 | Network of Namespaces and Layer 2 Local Area Clouds |
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45'
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A Network of Namespaces (NoN) interconnects network namespaces running on
different hosts as if they were on the same (virtual) Local Area Network.
It is possible to set up and maintain NoN using VLANs, veth, kernel bridge definitions,...
but it would be a daunting work for system administrators.
VXVDE and VXVDEX implement zero-configuration NoN.
Starting a namespace connected to a NoN it is as simple as typing a command like:
"vdens vxvde://". This new approach is fast (about the same performance figures of VXLAN's
kernel implementation) and it runs on vanilla Linux kernels.
VXVDEX provides NoN with access control.
Users can grant or deny network related ambient capabilities to their processes (e.g.
using cado commands: cado is like sudo but it provides rights at capability level).
This talk introduces the concept of NoN, gives some example of usage scenarios and
provides a live demo of the tools.
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