On Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:16:44 +0200, Stefan Hanreich wrote:
> pve-common now allows arbitrary names for physical interfaces, without
> being restricted by PHYSICAL_NIC_RE. In order to detect physical
> interfaces, pvestatd now needs to query 'ip link' for the type of an
> interface instead of relying on the regular expression.
>
> On the receiving end, PullMetric cannot consult 'ip link' for
> determining which interface is physical or not. To work around that,
> introduce a new type key, that carries information about the type of
> an interface. When aggregating the metrics, PullMetric can now read
> this additional parameter, to infer the type of the interface (either
> physical or virtual).
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
I added a time-based expiry check to re-cache this every 15 minutes in a follow
up, it's a very simple check and this way we converge relatively fast while not
doing that many updates.
[1/2] pvestatd: pull metric: use ip link to detect physical interfaces
commit: 83d0b982e6ad498031f0f1d97511b441c98a7706
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