From: Daniel Lezcano The core patchset of the network namespace sent by Eric Biederman does not do dynamic loopback creation. So there is no call to alloc_netdev_mq which fills the network namespace field of the netdevice. This patch assign the loopback to the init network namespace. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano --- drivers/net/loopback.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: net-2.6.24/drivers/net/loopback.c =================================================================== --- net-2.6.24.orig/drivers/net/loopback.c +++ net-2.6.24/drivers/net/loopback.c @@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ | NETIF_F_LLTX | NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL, .ethtool_ops = &loopback_ethtool_ops, + .nd_net = &init_net, }; /* Setup and register the loopback device. */ -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html