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On Sat, 2013-11-30 at 14:12 +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to move a wireless interface to a network namespace I
> created and I get an error:
> 
> ip link set wlan0 netns ns1
> RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
> 
> I do it with latest iproute2 git sources,  on 3.8 kernel.
> 
> I want to verify this: all wireless interfaces do no support
> network namespace. Is this true ? what in fact is the reason for this ?

At least mac80211-based wireless interfaces *do* support namespaces, but
you have to change the entire wireless NIC's namespace using iw --
having different virtual interfaces of the same NIC in different
namespaces is not supported.

johannes

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