Network Namespace-1000 networks with Overlap Addresses

Babu N babu.neelam at freescale.com
Thu Apr 23 02:48:47 PDT 2009


Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the response.
Its not enabled by default in ubuntu 8.10. But I have recompiled as 
per the instructions in 
http://lxc.sourceforge.net/network/configuration.php and found NEWNET 
giving error in the re-compiled kernel.
Your reply clarifies this.

Thanks again.


- Babu


At 02:28 PM 4/23/2009, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>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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