Re: [Xen-devel] Vif numbering

[Matt Ayres <matta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent... been looking for a way to do this.  When we want to allow
IP access to a VM we need to parse things to get the ID so we know which
device to route the IP to... this seems to be much more efficient.

On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 23:07 +0000, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> 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.
> 
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