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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:05:52 -0700 From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: David Shwatrz <dshwatrz@...il.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Deleting a network namespace David Shwatrz <dshwatrz@...il.com> writes: > Hello, > When assigning a network interface to a network namespace and > afterwards deleting the namespace, we will not see the network > interface in any other namespace (including the default namespace) anymore: > > ip netns add ns1 > ip link set eth0 netns ns1 > ip netns del ns1 > > This means that in fact we cannot use this interface again (only after > rebooting) > Am I right on this ? Interfaces that represent physical hardware are moved to init_net. Interfaces that are purely software constructs are deleted. > Is moving an interface back to the default (init) namespace, > when deleting the namespace which contains it, can be considered? If you aren't seeing that your interface is either a purely software construct like the veth or dummy interfaces or something still has a reference to your network namespace. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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