Re: wireless netns work

[Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>]

2009/6/18 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>:
> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 14:35 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
>> Oddly, the link works unidirectionally in both directions, if I ping
>> from either side tcpdump shows the echo requests on the other side, but
>> no echo reply is being generated. Still investigating why this is, since
>> it works fine with veth. Ideas why this is broken would be
>> appreciated :)
>
> Ok, the missing piece of the puzzle is this patch:
> http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/LATEST/NNN-hwsim-skb-cleanup.patch
>
> root@(none):~# ping -Q 0x80 10.0.0.1
> PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> Warning: time of day goes back (-311263us), taking countermeasures.
> 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.487 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.122 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.121 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.130 ms
>

Well done !!!

Don't you think it's time we create a mac80211 test suite based on hwsim ?
I think it's an interesting project...

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