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 -- Jiri Benc -- 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
