netdev - Re: wireless netns work

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Date:	Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:48:14 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
Cc:	Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@...il.com>,
	Georgy Berdyshev <codingmaster@...il.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: wireless netns work

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'.

johannes

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