On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 15:04 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > 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? Well that's the magic ;) Think of it as having one copy of the networking stack per netns. johannes
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