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| -rw-r--r-- | man4/veth.4 | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man4/veth.4 b/man4/veth.4 index 20294c097d..2d59882a07 100644 --- a/man4/veth.4 +++ b/man4/veth.4 @@ -63,13 +63,23 @@ A particularly interesting use case is to place one end of a .B veth pair in one network namespace and the other end in another network namespace, thus allowing communication between network namespaces. -To do this, one first creates the +To do this, one can provide the +.B netns +parameter when creating the interfaces: +.PP +.in +4n +.EX +# ip link add <p1-name> netns <p1-ns> type veth peer <p2-name> netns <p2-ns> +.EE +.in +.PP +or, for an existing .B veth -device as above and then moves one side of the pair to the other namespace: +pair, move one side to the other namespace: .PP .in +4n .EX -# ip link set <p2-name> netns <p2-namespace> +# ip link set <p2-name> netns <p2-ns> .EE .in .PP |