Subject: Re: Move an interface to init_ne

From: [email-masked] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:28:43 -0600

David Shwatrz <[email-masked]> writes:

> But when I run "modprobe 8139too" on namespace1, a device named "eth1"
> is created on the initial network namespace and not on namesapce1.
> I expected that in such a case, a device named "eth0" will be created
> on namespace1, since it was called from namespace1. Or maybe modprobe
> does
> not consider the namespace from which it was called ?

modprobe has no concept of the namespace from which it was called.

Eric