From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iproute, batch-cmds, and mac-vlans.
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:19:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100712221958.2a87b0e3@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C3BF050.7040206@candelatech.com>
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:49:20 -0700
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
> After too much time debugging, I finally realized that the ip
> tool was truncating my command because the mac-vlan device name
> had a '#' in it.
>
> ]# cat /tmp/foo.txt
> ru add to 10.99.21.1 iif eth0#0 lookup local pref 11
>
>
> # IP tool has some hacked up debugging code
> ]# ip -batch /tmp/foo.txt
> argc: 4
> arg -:to:-
> arg -:iif:-
> WARNING: Using TABLE_MAIN in iprule_modify, table_ok: 0 cmd: 32
>
>
> So, it acts on eth0 instead of eth0#0, and silently ignores the 'lookup local pref 11'.
>
> I understand that it is trying to parse # as comments, but would you
> all be interested in a patch that allowed ignoring '#' except
> when it is the first non-whitespace character on a line, and maybe
> when preceded by whitespace? This would of course have the possibility
> of breaking someone's script somewhere, so it could be enabled with
> a new command line arg, perhaps.
Putting # in device name just sounds like a bad idea.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-13 5:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-13 4:49 iproute, batch-cmds, and mac-vlans Ben Greear
2010-07-13 5:19 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-07-13 5:32 ` Ben Greear
2010-07-13 15:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
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