From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernd Eckenfels Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL]: Alias names for network interfaces Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:02:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20100120010239.GA19773@lina.inka.de> References: <20100113110425.GA5095@lina.inka.de> <4B4E0158.4050102@oracle.com> <20100113174610.GA10130@mdomsch-pws380.us.dell.com> <4B54953D.5030005@cineca.it> <20100119143139.1dc18162@nehalam> Reply-To: net-tools@lina.inka.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Stephen Hemminger , Narendra_K@Dell.com, m.innocenti@cineca.it, jengelh@medozas.de, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, john.haxby@oracle.com, netfilter-devel@vger. Return-path: Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:60136 "EHLO mail.inka.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751056Ab0ATBCr (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:02:47 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100119143139.1dc18162@nehalam> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 02:31:39PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Sure, but this would again introduce state. And that might not help in a > > heterogeneous environment. > > Hetrogeneous with what? Other OS's; sorry I don't care what Windows, Solaris, > HP-UX or anything else uses as a rule. The point is to do the right thing. I dont see "state" introduced: a) you export the smb name of the interface to userspace b) you use a (usersace) init script to use existing kernel api to rename the interface (to it's smbname or anything else you want) Gruss Bernd