Testing on hosts with firewalls

Zack Weinberg zackw@panix.com
Thu Dec 29 18:23:00 GMT 2016


On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> does it help if you run all the tests in a unique net namespace ?
> i think our skel test framework should set up unique namespaces
> all the time anyways to prevent inadvertent leakage, and to handle
> issues like port collisions.

I agree in principle, but:

- can that be done without root privileges?
- beware https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97811

zw



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