Cannot Move Namespace of Macvlan Interface on top of Bonding Device

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When adding a mavclan interface with a parent interface of a bond device to a network namespace there are errors showing that the operation failed:
# ip link set netns namespace0 macvlan-dev
RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
  • The issue may manifest itself when using Docker with mavclan devices

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 or higher
  • Docker (any version)

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