>On 08/13/2014 07:31 PM, Garrett Gauthier wrote:
>
>
>
> To keep accounting for network traffic for each container, I need to
> know the virtual interface name. The problem is
>that each time my container starts I get a new interface created on the host,
>something like vethCSR894, it is never the same.
>I have tried by using lxc.network.veth.pair but that parameter is ignored and
>a new interace pair is cerated each time
>VETH##### (Host) ↔ ETH0 (Container).
>
> So bottom line I want to create a virtual interface that is connected
> to my bridge and force the container to use that
>interface each time.
>
>
> I used Cacti but any tool has the same issue as the interface name is
> randomly generated each time the container
>starts.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>
>It works for me:
>
>lxc.network.veth.pair = veth_da-ipa-0
I'm even using something like
lxc-start [...] -s lxc.network.veth.pair=$CONTAINER
in my lxc wrapper. Notice, that you can't "overwrite" an existing config file
entry because multiple container interfaces are declared by repeating the
"lxc.network" tags.
Guido
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