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how does this work under the hood? in particular, how are the hosts emulated? by separate processes?
by mihaifm 14y ago
how does this work under the hood? in particular, how are the hosts emulated? by separate processes?
- xtacy 14y agoYes. 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.
- edwintorok 14y agoMininet 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-Mininet#wiki-limits https://github.com/mininet/mininet/wiki/Introduction-to-Mini...