From 254fae2dc90875a7261970a9930e5cc5bda93c09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Lantz <rlantz@cs.stanford.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:23:48 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify which intf pair failed and raise exception

---
 mininet/util.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mininet/util.py b/mininet/util.py
index 4b0e209..1780632 100644
--- a/mininet/util.py
+++ b/mininet/util.py
@@ -190,7 +190,8 @@ def makeIntfPair( intf1, intf2, addr1=None, addr2=None, node1=None, node2=None,
     if cmdOutput == '':
         return True
     else:
-        error( "Error creating interface pair: %s " % cmdOutput )
+        raise Exception( "Error creating interface pair (%s,%s): %s " %
+                         ( intf1, intf2, cmdOutput ) )
         return False
 
 def retry( retries, delaySecs, fn, *args, **keywords ):