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Subject: Re: mac80211_hwsim + iperf + netns
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Krishna Chaitanya <chaitanya.mgit@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>,
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 13:35:01 +0100
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On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 17:58 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.
> net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 12:32 +0100, Michal Kazior wrote:
> > > 
> > >  ip netns add ns1
> > >  ip netns exec ns1 bash # get the PID in the session and don't
> > > close
> > > it
> > >  iw phy phyX set netns $pid_of_that_shell
> > > 
> > 
> > If you also have a recent enough iw version, you can use
> > 
> > iw phy phyX set netns name ns1
> > 
> My iw has this option, but it throws an error.
> Does this command have any prerequisites?
> 
> # iw phy phy1 set netns name ns1
> Invalid parameter: nsname(name)
> 

This happens if the ns1 doesn't exist.

johannes