From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] netns: configurable number of initial network namespaces Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:51:52 +0100 Message-ID: <49075138.80808@trash.net> References: <20081028174659.GF8471@thomson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev , David Miller , Benjamin Thery , jleu@mindspring.com, linux-vrf-general@lists.sourceforge.net To: Vivien Chappelier Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:37627 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752789AbYJ1Rvz (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:51:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20081028174659.GF8471@thomson.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Vivien Chappelier wrote: > This allows the creation of more than one network namespace at boot time. I'm wondering, what is the advantage over creating them manually? They have to be configured by userspace to be useful anyway, don't they?