veth0 weirdness
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: 2023-12-05 00:51:23
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: 2023-12-05 00:51:23
Discovered an anomoly while exploring using veth for some testing scenarios. The following will always fail with EEXIST: # ip li add dev veth0 type veth RTNETLINK answers: File exists The reason is that name for the peer is always created first via: "veth%d" and that will return "veth0". Then when the requested device is created it will conflict with itself. Not a big problem, but may confuse users. Fixing it would involve some more complex transactional logic to create the primary device first then create the peer which could get messy and likely buggy on first versions for all the cases.