[Lxc-users] Determine which veth interface belongs to which container

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com
Mon Jul 1 15:26:44 UTC 2013


You can probably correlate it using /sys/class/net/$veth/iflink,
which should have consecutive values for link and peer.

Quoting Yury Vidineev (adepty at yandex.ru):
> Thank you for the answer! It's almost exactly what I need. But is it possible 
> to know name of interfaces without containers restart?
> 
> On Monday, July 01, 2013 02:08:10 PM Claudio Kuenzler wrote:
> > > Hello
> > > Can anyone suggest me a way to determine which veth* interface belongs to
> > > which container?
> > 
> > You have the possibility to add the veth interface name into the lxc config:
> > 
> > lxc.network.veth.pair = veth0-$name
> > 
> > 
> > Using this, you'll immediately know to which lxc container the interface
> > belongs.
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Yury Vidineev
> 
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