Namespaces in operation, part 1: namespaces overview

Posted Jan 4, 2013 20:56 UTC (Fri) by ebiederm (subscriber, #35028)
In reply to: Namespaces in operation, part 1: namespaces overview by Fats
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Each network namespace is a logically a separate networking stack, with separate addresses, separate firewall rules, separate qos policies etc.

Network devices and sockets belong to a particular network namespace and everything else figures out which network namespace you are talking about from the socket or network device.