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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>,
	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
	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: Sun, 25 May 2008 05:07:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4838D7E4.7050401@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0805242254020.19084@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Saturday 2008-05-24 22:31, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> 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.
>> iptraf uses device names to determine the device type:
> 
> Run `iptraf -u`, and it works with any name.

Thanks for the hint. Its stupid nevertheless.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-25  3:07 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
2008-05-24 20:31                   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-24 20:54                     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-25  3:07                       ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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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