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    Serialize the excecution of ebtables processes · 1409faba
    Stratos Psomadakis authored
    ebtables cannot handle multiple userspace ebtables processes running
    concurrently. This could lead to failures while setting up or cleaning
    up ebtables for VM networks.
    
    ebtables latest release (included in Debian Wheezy) supports ebtables
    command seriliazation with the --concurrent cmdline option (which uses
    flock).
    
    In order to make sure that snf-network works with older versions of
    ebtables, we wrap the ebtables commands around a Python helper script
    which serializes the excecution of any processes on a host machine by
    waiting until successfully binding on a TCPv4 port on localhost (for
    more information see the runlocked script).
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