As far as I recall, if you have sysfs active and use the sysfs patch to let you configure both sysfs and network namespaces, you can only move virtual interfaces into a network namespace. Guenter On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 13:47 -0800, chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:52:58PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > > >I tried getting 2.6.26 and I have the same problem: > > > > > >[root@C100273 iproute2-2.6.26]# ip/ip link set eth4 netns 24755 > > >RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument > > > > > >I'm pretty certain I'm running the right "version" of the command. It > > >does install it to /usr/sbin/ip, but if I run the version that came with > > >the > > >distribution (in /sbin/ip), I get a different error reporting netns as > > >garbage. > > >So.. since it at least parses the netns argument and sends the netlink > > >request, > > >it at least seems to be making it to the kernel. > > > > > >Does the kernel.org version of 2.6.29-rc1 have everything I need? > > > > > >Any other ideas? > > > > > Is eth4 a physical network device or a virtual device (like a tunnel) > > renamed eth4 ? > > > > Can you send the output of the "ip link" command and the value of > > /sys/class/net/eth4/features to check if the network device is not > > flagged as a non-movable. > > > > thanks. > > -- Daniel > > It's a physical device - uses the e1000e driver. > Here's the output of both commands. > > [root@C100273 iproute2-2.6.26]# ip link > 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue > link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 > 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 > link/ether 00:1c:c4:dc:44:b2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop qlen 1000 > link/ether 00:1c:c4:48:35:f5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > 4: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop qlen 1000 > link/ether 00:1c:c4:dc:44:b0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > 5: eth3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop qlen 1000 > link/ether 00:1c:c4:48:35:f4 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > 6: eth4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 > link/ether 00:1c:c4:48:35:f7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > 7: eth5: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop qlen 1000 > link/ether 00:1c:c4:48:35:f6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > 8: br1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue > link/ether 66:f4:32:9f:12:df brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > [root@C100273 iproute2-2.6.26]# cat /sys/class/net/eth4/features > 0x111ba9 > > Thanks, > Chris > _______________________________________________ > Containers mailing list > Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers