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On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Johannes Berg<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 14:43 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> For example, I see you used mac80211_hwsim and was able to use two
>> wlan interfaces to talk to each other. This seems great for testing
>> purposes but it remains unclear to me the advantage of testing with
>> separate namespaces vs creating two wlan interfaces on one namespace
>> with mac80211_hwsim.
>
> You cannot ping within one namespace and have the packets actually flow
> over the virtual 'air'.

I see, thanks! How does using a separate namespace fix this limitation?

  Luis
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