Re: [Xen-devel] Vif numbering

[Nick Craig-Wood <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:53:09PM -0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > Can we specify for a domain the vif interface ?
> 
> Not right now, though I guess in principle you could.
> 
> However, when a vif is created the the vif script gets invoeked with the
> name of the domain and the assigned vif. You can hence use the domain
> name for inserting domain-specific iptables rules etc.

You can also rename the vif using ip once it has been created eg

  ip link set vif17.0 name myname

That is what we do to solve the same problem.  It doesn't seem to
cause any other problems.

-- 
Nick Craig-Wood <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick


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