On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 08:03:39 -0400, Naveen wrote:
>      Right now the only way to detect if an interface has a peer(veth)
> is touse ethtool -S. Instead I was thinking of adding it to device
> attributes as a peer_ifndex entry. In drivers/net/veth.c I could add
> an entry to
> dev->groups for a veth specific group. Would that be acceptable ?

Recent kernels announce the peer in IFLA_LINK, including its netnsid
(thus it's finally possible to track peers across net namespaces).
Just try "ip a" with a recent kernel.

 Jiri

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