On 8 Feb 2022, at 10:47, Trond Myklebust wrote: >> peernet2id_alloc() is not designed for this. It appears to use >> idr_alloc(), which means it will reuse values frequently. I did not think of that. > Furthermore, that would introduce a dependency on the init namespace > identifier being unique, which precludes its use for initialising said > init namespace. That's what the udev rule will fix! :) I think I was still on the deterministic bus, but it seems to make the most sense to simply use a random value as a default, then. And if a container wants to be the same client it must run udev, or write to sysfs itselt. Ben
