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What is a network namespace?

What is a network namespace?

Posted Sep 11, 2007 19:33 UTC (Tue) by cajal (guest, #4167)
Parent article: KS2007: Containers

I'm puzzled by this quote "unlike Solaris Zones, it will have network namespaces." What is a network namespace?


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What is a network namespace?

Posted Sep 12, 2007 9:13 UTC (Wed) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link]

It's an ability to have different network stacks running along. It's network stack virtualization. And, contrary to comment above, it's available in Solaris 10u4 and OpenSolaris. It's nicknamed project Crossbow.

What is a network namespace?

Posted Sep 12, 2007 14:42 UTC (Wed) by ebiederm (subscriber, #35028) [Link]

Odd. I don't think I actually made that comment.

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