Re: [vpp-dev] Tap IF Names

2017-03-28 Thread Jon Loeliger
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Pierre Pfister (ppfister) < ppfis...@cisco.com> wrote: > > > tapcli.c implements all tap nodes, plus the CLI calls. > tapapi.c only implements api calls and then calls tapcli functions. > > Admittedly tapcli is not the perfect name, > It's not a matter of names.

Re: [vpp-dev] Tap IF Names

2017-03-28 Thread Pierre Pfister (ppfister)
Le 28 mars 2017 à 13:54, Jon Loeliger mailto:j...@netgate.com>> a écrit : On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Jon Loeliger mailto:j...@netgate.com>> wrote: On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Damjan Marion (damarion) mailto:damar...@cisco.com>> wrote: > On 28 Mar 2017, at 12:15, Kinsella, Ray

Re: [vpp-dev] Tap IF Names

2017-03-28 Thread Jon Loeliger
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Jon Loeliger wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Damjan Marion (damarion) < > damar...@cisco.com> wrote: > >> >> > On 28 Mar 2017, at 12:15, Kinsella, Ray wrote: >> > >> > +1 to Jon's comments. >> > >> > >> > On 24/03/2017 14:07, Pierre Pfister (ppfis

Re: [vpp-dev] Tap IF Names

2017-03-28 Thread Jon Loeliger
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Damjan Marion (damarion) < damar...@cisco.com> wrote: > > > On 28 Mar 2017, at 12:15, Kinsella, Ray wrote: > > > > +1 to Jon's comments. > > > > > > On 24/03/2017 14:07, Pierre Pfister (ppfister) wrote: > >> Hello Jon, > >> > >> No strong opinion on my side, but

Re: [vpp-dev] Tap IF Names

2017-03-28 Thread Damjan Marion (damarion)
> On 28 Mar 2017, at 12:15, Kinsella, Ray wrote: > > +1 to Jon's comments. > > > On 24/03/2017 14:07, Pierre Pfister (ppfister) wrote: >> Hello Jon, >> >> No strong opinion on my side, but I'd just like to notice that there might >> be cases where multiple interfaces, in linux, have the same

Re: [vpp-dev] Tap IF Names

2017-03-28 Thread Kinsella, Ray
+1 to Jon's comments. On 24/03/2017 14:07, Pierre Pfister (ppfister) wrote: Hello Jon, No strong opinion on my side, but I'd just like to notice that there might be cases where multiple interfaces, in linux, have the same name, if they are in different network namespaces. VPP could literally

Re: [vpp-dev] Tap IF Names

2017-03-24 Thread Jon Loeliger
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Pierre Pfister (ppfister) < ppfis...@cisco.com> wrote: > Hello Jon, > > No strong opinion on my side, but I'd just like to notice that there might > be cases where multiple interfaces, in linux, have the same name, if they > are in different network namespaces. > V

Re: [vpp-dev] Tap IF Names

2017-03-24 Thread Pierre Pfister (ppfister)
Hello Jon, No strong opinion on my side, but I'd just like to notice that there might be cases where multiple interfaces, in linux, have the same name, if they are in different network namespaces. VPP could literally control the back-end of thousands of containers' interfaces, all called eth0.