wireless vs. network namespaces

2007-09-14 Thread Johannes Berg
Now that the network namespace work is in net-2.6.24, I'm wondering how wireless will be handling this. Is there any benefit at all to a wireless device supporting network namespaces? Should we, for now, set the new NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL flag for all mac80211 devices? If we do want to support

Re: wireless vs. network namespaces

2007-09-14 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now that the network namespace work is in net-2.6.24, I'm wondering how wireless will be handling this. Is there any benefit at all to a wireless device supporting network namespaces? Good question. Network namespaces are designed as a general tool so

Re: wireless vs. network namespaces

2007-09-14 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 09:31 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Now that the network namespace work is in net-2.6.24, I'm wondering how wireless will be handling this. Is there any benefit at all to a wireless device supporting network namespaces? Good question. Network namespaces are