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This project proposal is a subtask of smp networking and is elegible for funding independently.

The goal of this project is to implement full virtual network stacks. A virtual network stack collects all the global data for an instance of a network stack (excluding AF_LOCAL). This includes routing table, data for multiple domains and their protocols, and the mutexes needed for regulating access to it all. Instead, a brane is an instance of a networking stack.

An interface belongs to a brane, as do processes. This can be considered a chroot(2) for networking, e.g. chbrane(2).