Hi Dave,
I started out saying that I think this is a valuable change. That being
said, this is going to have implications for folks.
Sometimes concrete examples help. I did not have to look far.
Here is code from VOM. Yes, it is deprecated, but it is an example for
folks to follow.
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* A DB
Ole,
As you note, internally only the index is used. As far as I can tell, the
ability to store the name in VPP is a convenience. The ability to change it
shouldn't impact VPP but makes it much easier for those of us that have to
deal with the human side of a product. The change to expose it is min
Hi Paul,
>From my understanding - but I might be mistaken here - I thought this was
about an explicit `rename` cli & api,
so foot shooting would be quite explicit from the user's perspective.
On ability to query/disable `show int` and equivalent apis would return
this modified state,
and not calli
Hi Matt, Ole, Nathan,
Matt,
I have no objection to the feature, I would just ask that you provide a
startup.conf option to disable it and an api to query that state. The
reason I say this is that there are configuration models that depend on the
stability of the device name. Many yang models as a
Hi Matt, Hi Ole,
I think adding a cli & api call for renaming interfaces would be quite
useful.
I agree we shouldn't refer to interfaces by name in the API thought
(sw_if_index is definitely the way to go)
Several non-api use-cases would imho benefit from this. I can see writing
cli scripts witho
Matt,
> Source file src/vnet/interface.c has a function vnet_rename_interface(). It
> only appears to be called by the lisp plugin currently. It would be handy to
> be able to rename a DPDK interface without having to change startup.conf and
> restart VPP. I am wondering if I could do that by a
Hi all,
Source file src/vnet/interface.c has a function vnet_rename_interface(). It
only appears to be called by the lisp plugin currently. It would be handy
to be able to rename a DPDK interface without having to change startup.conf
and restart VPP. I am wondering if I could do that by adding a
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