i want to tie two ethernet ports together for the sake of pinging out of one and into the other for testing. (in fact, i just grabbed a couple startech USB/net adapters and plugged them into two spare USB ports on the laptop, but i figure that should not become an issue in any of this.) as i understand it (as i've never actually done it), i simply need to use "ip netns" to define at least one (additional?) network namespace, so that pinging doesn't simply recognize both ports being on the same system. is there anything tricky about this? i found one blog post: https://blog.scottlowe.org/2013/09/04/introducing-linux-network-namespaces/ which seems pretty straightforward, just wondering if anyone knows precisely the incantation for this. thanks muchly. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org