Network Namespace-1000 networks with Overlap Addresses

Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezcano at free.fr
Thu Apr 23 01:58:30 PDT 2009


Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> Babu N wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am finding that a unshare call with CLONE_NEWNET is giving error in 
>> ubuntu 8.10 (kernet version 2.6.27).
>> The man page here 
>> (http://manpages.courier-mta.org/htmlman2/clone.2.html) states that 
>> CLONE_NEWNET implementation is not yet complete, but probably will be 
>> mostly complete by about Linux 2.6.28.
>> Is there way I can use CLONE_NEWNET successfully in 2.6.27 ?
>>   
>>     
> No, in 2.6.27 the netns code is not complete and buggy.
> You have to use the 2.6.29 kernel version.
>
>   -- Daniel
>   

By the way, you can ask Tim Gardner, Cc'ing the ubuntu kernel team if 
the net_ns is enabled in the 2.6.29 kernel version and, if not, if it is 
possible to enable it.

Thanks
  -- Daniel


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