[lxc-devel] external name of veth-interface

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 05/04/2011 12:59 PM, Jäkel, Guido wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a possibility to let LXC have control over the external naming of the veth-Device to replace  veth<random>   by something related to a concrete container? E.g. a name assigned by the containers configuration, the container name itself or at least (maybe as a default) the pid of the lxc-init process.
>
> A unique fixed name would make some things easyer to implement on the host, e.g. traffic accounting.

lxc.network.veth.pair = <name>