From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: <Narendra_K@Dell.com>
Cc: <be-mail2009@lina.inka.de>, <jengelh@medozas.de>,
<net-tools@lina.inka.de>, <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
<jgarzik@users.sourceforge.net>, <Matt_Domsch@Dell.com>,
<Charles_Rose@Dell.com>, <Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com>,
<Sandeep_K_Shandilya@Dell.com>
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL]: Alias names for network interfaces
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:38:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091218093845.00d7e918@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EDA0A4495861324DA2618B4C45DCB3EE5898C7@blrx3m08.blr.amer.dell.com>
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:49:15 +0530
<Narendra_K@Dell.com> wrote:
> The installer solution involved renaming the network interface names
> from ethN to something else based on the naming convention that the user
> specified. For example, if the user chose "smbios names" as the the
> naming convention then all ethN would be renamed to Embedded_NIC_N.
> ifconfig would show Embedded_NIC_N instead of ethN.
Renaming away from ethN causes some applications like net-snmp to get confused,
and others have special sorting rules based on existing model (like quagga).
I would argue that the "ethN" convention is part of existing system
ABI and should not get changed in a visible way to applications.
--
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-18 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-17 13:54 [PROPOSAL]: Alias names for network interfaces Narendra_K
2009-12-17 14:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-12-18 2:02 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2009-12-18 13:19 ` Narendra_K
2009-12-18 13:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-12-18 14:02 ` Domsch, Matt
2009-12-18 14:08 ` Domsch, Matt
2009-12-18 14:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-12-20 0:12 ` Jordan_Hargrave
2009-12-18 17:38 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-12-21 17:28 ` Narendra_K
2009-12-21 17:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-23 17:11 ` Narendra_K
[not found] <EDA0A4495861324DA2618B4C45DCB3EE5899AC@blrx3m08.blr.amer.dell.com>
2010-01-12 19:49 ` Narendra K
2010-01-13 0:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-01-13 6:47 ` [PROPOSAL]: " Narendra_K
2010-01-13 11:04 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2010-01-13 17:22 ` John Haxby
2010-01-13 17:46 ` Domsch, Matt
2010-01-13 18:11 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2010-01-13 18:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-01-14 8:44 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-01-14 9:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-01-15 19:14 ` Narendra_K
2010-01-18 17:07 ` Marco Innocenti
2010-01-19 17:32 ` Narendra_K
2010-01-19 22:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-20 1:02 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2010-01-20 16:42 ` Narendra_K
2010-01-13 17:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-13 13:24 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-01-13 13:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-01-13 16:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-13 17:00 ` Narendra_K
2010-01-14 8:41 ` Patrick McHardy
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