On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 09:37:29 +0200 Serhey Popovych <serhe.popov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is already given for original device we configure this > peer for. > > Results from following command before/after change applied > are shown below: > > $ ip link add dev veth1a type veth peer name veth1b \ > type veth peer name veth1c > > Before: > ------- > > <no output, no netdevs created> > > After: > ------ > > Error: argument "type" is wrong: not supported for peer > > Signed-off-by: Serhey Popovych <serhe.popov...@gmail.com> This makes a lot of sense. Maybe the better error message would be to use duparg() since that is the most likely cause of the user error.