Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way to tell for certain if an interface is a etun or not? Maybe > a file could be found (or not) in sysfs somewhere?
Link for any decent network driver ethtool -i <interface> > Also, how do you find the peer device from user-space? This would be very > useful > for anyone trying to manage these devices with a user-space program. Currently "ethtool -S <interface>" And read the partner_ifindex. Further whoever generates the pair specifies the initial set of names. > When you are creating new devices, I think you should check to make > sure there isn't already a device with that name. alloc_netdev doesn't let you register two devices with the same name, and I check the return status of alloc_netdev. > In general though, I look forward to this being in the kernel so I can drop > my redirect device code from my out-of-tree patch. Thanks. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
