On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 18:13 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions. > net> wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 17:58 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsoluti > > > ons. > > > net> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 12:32 +0100, Michal Kazior wrote: > > > > > > > > > > ip netns add ns1 > > > > > ip netns exec ns1 bash # get the PID in the session and > > > > > don't > > > > > close > > > > > it > > > > > iw phy phyX set netns $pid_of_that_shell > > > > > > > > > > > > > If you also have a recent enough iw version, you can use > > > > > > > > iw phy phyX set netns name ns1 > > > > > > > My iw has this option, but it throws an error. > > > Does this command have any prerequisites? > > > > > > # iw phy phy1 set netns name ns1 > > > Invalid parameter: nsname(name) > > > > > > > This happens if the ns1 doesn't exist. > ok, so we need latest iprotue2 to create the > namespace? for this way to work, yes. you could hack your own C program to do the required unshare() call and exec bash and then use the PID ... I used to have one but can't find it now. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html