netdev - Re: wireless netns work

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Message-ID: <43e72e890906181504i3b48b1fbj88fe485890e5f1a0@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:04:11 -0700
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
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, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Johannes Berg<johannes@...solutions.net> 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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