Thank you John

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:11 PM, John Lo (loj) <l...@cisco.com> wrote:
> The functions in the area you are interested may be the unformat functions 
> unformat_vnet_sw_interface(), unformat_vnet_hw_interface() in 
> src/vnet/interface_format.c used by VPP CLI to get sw_if_index or hw_if_index 
> from user specified interface name.    -John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io [mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io] On Behalf Of Sara 
> Gittlin
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 11:22 AM
> To: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io
> Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] VPP As A Router Between Namespaces - 10ms latency
>
> btw - is there (like in linux)  a vpp function helper 
> "interface-name-to-if-index"  - which its input is interface-name and output  
> is vpp-if-index ?
>
> Thank you
> -Sara
>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 5:16 PM, Sara Gittlin <sara.gitt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you Jon
>> This indeed very helpful !
>> Cheers
>> -Sara
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Jon Loeliger <j...@netgate.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:57 AM, Sara Gittlin
>>> <sara.gitt...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Florin,
>>>>
>>>> When using the command " create tap rx-ring-size 4096 tx-ring-size 4096 "
>>>>  VPP create the devices with default names tap0, tap1, ..tapn.
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible for the user to set the name in the 'create' command line ?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance
>>>> -Sara
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Sara,
>>>
>>> Welcome to my battle!
>>>
>>> Luckily, there is a way to do as you wish!  If you set the "instance"
>>> value <n> during the tap_create API call, or use "id <n>" during the
>>> "create tap ..." CLI command, you will create an interface of the
>>> name "tap<n>".  You may not use a different prefix than "tap", but at
>>> least you can know what the name will be when it is created.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> jdl
>>>
>>>
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