Vale port naming

[Matt Churchyard]

> On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 10:37:48PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 11:29:31AM +0000, Matt Churchyard via freebsd-net wrote:
> > > From the little information I can find on the net it seems that valeX:Y is the format for a port on a vale switch.
> > > Some examples use vale0:1, others use a letter such as valeA:0. The only details I can find is a vague reference to a 15/16? character limit,
> >  > although I don't know whether that applies to just the first part of the whole thing.
> > 
> > Can anyone clarify the valid format for a vale switch/port?
> > Is there any length or character restriction on X & Y?
> 
> According to the vale.4 manpage:
> 
>         vale ports are named vale[bdg:][port] where vale is the prefix
>         indicating a VALE switch rather than a standard interface, bdg
>         indicates a specific switch (the colon is a separator), and port
>         indicates a port within the switch.  Bridge and port names are
>         arbitrary strings, the only constraint being that the full name
>         must fit within 16 characters.
> 
> The manpage is confusing in that the name must be 15 characters plus 
> the NUL character.  Given the other limits, it looks like bdg can be 
> up to 8 characters in practice.

>  Having hit send, I've noticed I'm wrong here. :)  In fact, you have 10 characters to split betwen bdg and port.

> -- Brooks

Ok, so I can assume using port names like "vale9d9af:66aa9" isn't the reason that my test machine is panicing.
I might give 10.3 a go instead of head and see how I get on with that.

Matt