Testing on hosts with firewalls

[Florian Weimer]

On 12/29/2016 07:08 PM, Mike Frysinger 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.

This is an interesting idea.

I don't see how I can set up interfaces in a network namespace as an 
unprivileged user.

If we can create a loopback interface and get per-namespace tables, this 
could be a solution.  Even if these tables are very small, we could 
discard them after each subtest.

Thanks,
Florian