Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] The logic in veth.c that searches for free interface names takes into account

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 08:20:38AM -0700, Dan Smith wrote:
> only current devices, but not device names already planned for the other
> half of a container's device pair.  Thus, the search can result in attempting
> to create a pair of devices such as veth1 and veth1, which obviously does
> not work.
> 
> This patch augments the logic to be a little smarter in this regard, and should
> fix one case where attempting to start a container results in an error message
> of "unable to create device pair".

ACK, this explains the failures I've hit with duplicate veth names !

Daniel
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