Re:Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop
by mihaifm on Saturday February 23, 2013 @06:47PM
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how does this work under the hood? in particular, how are the hosts emulated? by separate processes?
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Re:Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop
by xtacy on Saturday February 23, 2013 @06:51PM
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Yes. Virtual hosts are in isolated containers with their own pid and network namespace. So each host can have its own routing table, IP address, etc. without interfering with one another.
Re:Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop
by edwintorok on Sunday February 24, 2013 @10:31AM
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Mininet doesn't actually use PID namespaces yet. They warn that the PID namespace and host filesystem are shared:
https://github.com/mininet/mininet/wiki/Introduction-to-Mini...