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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:12:34 -0500
From: Josh Wyatt <Josh.Wyatt@hcssystems.com>
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Subject: [Bridge] Max length of bridge device name?
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Hi all,

Does anyone know the maximum length of the interface name created by 'brctl addbr'?  How about any other restrictions on 
usable alphanumerics, for example is "-" (dash) or "_" (underscore) allowed, commas, periods, etc allowed?

Most docs I see refer to this as br0, but I'd like to use more descriptive names, such as vlan_105, etc.

Thanks in advance,
Josh