On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Damjan Marion (damarion) < damar...@cisco.com> wrote:
> > > On 28 Mar 2017, at 12:15, Kinsella, Ray <ray.kinse...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > +1 to Jon's comments. > > > > > > On 24/03/2017 14:07, Pierre Pfister (ppfister) wrote: > >> Hello Jon, > >> > >> No strong opinion on my side, but I'd just like to notice that there > might be cases where multiple interfaces, in linux, have the same name, if > they are in different network namespaces. > >> VPP could literally control the back-end of thousands of containers' > interfaces, all called eth0. > > > > Well your backend and your frontend device names are typically named > different. You are correct in that frontend device in the container is > always eth0, the backend device for each container's eth0 is uniquely named > in the default network namespace. > > Can somebody come up with the patch proposal? > > Thanks! Happy to do so. One question, though: what is the purpose of the "renumber" and "custom_dev_instance" fields? Thanks, jdl
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