From: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>,
"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
johnathan@jonmasters.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: network interface *name* alias support?
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 11:37:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4837EFF2.40807@katalix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211621632.31212.73.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 10:15 +0100, James Chapman wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be better to fix any applications that can't handle
>> renamed devices?
>
> _Are_ there any such applications? Other than NetworkManager crapping
> itself when the device name is too long, I'm not aware of any.
I think pppd is one such app (multilink and radius features may break),
though this thread has only been concerned with eth devices so far. I'm
sure I used a command line tool recently that was checking device names
for eth%d patterns but I can't remember what it was now. :(
--
James Chapman
Katalix Systems Ltd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-24 10:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-23 16:31 network interface *name* alias support? Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-23 17:14 ` Kok, Auke
2008-05-23 17:44 ` Rick Jones
2008-05-23 19:06 ` Jon Masters
2008-05-23 19:11 ` Jon Masters
2008-05-23 20:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-23 20:55 ` Jon Masters
2008-05-23 22:54 ` Thomas Graf
2008-05-24 4:25 ` Jon Masters
2008-05-24 4:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-24 5:16 ` Matt Domsch
2008-05-24 9:15 ` James Chapman
2008-05-24 9:33 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 10:37 ` James Chapman [this message]
2008-05-24 20:31 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-24 20:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-25 3:07 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-25 12:17 ` David Miller
2008-05-27 19:03 ` Matt Domsch
2008-05-27 21:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-27 22:11 ` Thomas Graf
2008-05-24 18:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-21 22:47 Jon Masters
2008-05-23 13:07 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 14:50 ` Jon Masters
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