Temporary code to play with network namespaces in the simplest way. Do exec 7< /proc/net/net_ns in your bash shell and you'll get a brand new network namespace. There you can, for example, do ip link set lo up ip addr list ip addr add 1.2.3.4 dev lo ping -n 1.2.3.4
Signed-off-by: Andrey Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- dev.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletion --- ./net/core/dev.c.vensdbg Fri Jun 23 11:50:16 2006 +++ ./net/core/dev.c Fri Jun 23 11:50:40 2006 @@ -3444,6 +3444,8 @@ int net_ns_start(void) if (err) goto out_register; put_net_ns(orig_ns); + printk(KERN_DEBUG "NET_NS: created new netcontext %p for %s (pid=%d)\n", + ns, task->comm, task->tgid); return 0; out_register: @@ -3461,6 +3463,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_ns_start); void net_ns_free(struct net_namespace *ns) { + printk(KERN_DEBUG "NET_NS: netcontext %p freed\n", ns); kfree(ns); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_ns_free); @@ -3473,8 +3476,13 @@ static void net_ns_destroy(void *data) ns = data; push_net_ns(ns, orig_ns); unregister_netdev(ns->loopback); + if (!list_empty(&ns->dev_base)) { + printk("NET_NS: BUG: context %p has devices! ref %d\n", + ns, atomic_read(&ns->active_ref)); + pop_net_ns(orig_ns); + return; + } ip_fib_struct_fini(); - BUG_ON(!list_empty(&ns->dev_base)); pop_net_ns(orig_ns); /* drop (hopefully) final reference */ @@ -3483,9 +3491,23 @@ static void net_ns_destroy(void *data) void net_ns_stop(struct net_namespace *ns) { + printk(KERN_DEBUG "NET_NS: netcontext %p scheduled for stop\n", ns); execute_in_process_context(net_ns_destroy, ns, &ns->destroy_work); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_ns_stop); + +static int net_ns_open(struct inode *i, struct file *f) +{ + return net_ns_start(); +} +static struct file_operations net_ns_fops = { + .open = net_ns_open, +}; +static int net_ns_init(void) +{ + return proc_net_fops_create("net_ns", S_IRWXU, &net_ns_fops) + ? 0 : -ENOMEM; +} #endif /* @@ -3550,6 +3572,9 @@ static int __init net_dev_init(void) hotcpu_notifier(dev_cpu_callback, 0); dst_init(); dev_mcast_init(); +#ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS + net_ns_init(); +#endif rc = 0; out: return rc; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html