Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-tcpdump: handle large interface names on linux

2017-11-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 05:33:20PM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote: > Linux has a fixed size interface name, which will not change. This means > that attempts to dump interfaces whose names are larger than the max size > will result in an error making the tap device. > > This commit brings a new functi

[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-tcpdump: handle large interface names on linux

2017-11-10 Thread Aaron Conole
Linux has a fixed size interface name, which will not change. This means that attempts to dump interfaces whose names are larger than the max size will result in an error making the tap device. This commit brings a new function. When the generated name would be too large, use a random number pre