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Re:Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop by xtacy on Saturday February 23, 2013 @06:51PM (#5272002)
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.
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Re:Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop by edwintorok on Sunday February 24, 2013 @10:31AM (#5274514)
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...
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