From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: "Martín Ferrari" <martin.ferrari@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Bug handling devices with weird names
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:19:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1278670779.2696.1.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim3IpnHn8ZedpYAphlA1ZdhzizuJo-azmPtd-kd@mail.gmail.com>
Le vendredi 09 juillet 2010 à 12:04 +0200, Martín Ferrari a écrit :
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 19:27, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> wrote:
> > Colons are used for the old IP aliasing. IP aliasing was an older way of handling
> > multiple addresses per interface, and is not necessary anymore. The syntax is
> > retained for legacy compatibility.
>
> I know, but there is some code that is not accepting any valid name.
> So i am able to create the device but then I cannot do some stuff. So
> that's why I think this is a bug.
>
>
Update user land tools ?
No problem here :
# ip link add name foo: type dummy
# ip link list foo:
14: foo:: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN
link/ether e6:48:a9:57:d4:1f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
# ip link del foo:
# ip -V
ip utility, iproute2-ss100519
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-09 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-08 17:08 Bug handling devices with weird names Martín Ferrari
2010-07-08 17:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-07-09 10:04 ` Martín Ferrari
2010-07-09 10:19 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-07-09 15:41 ` Martín Ferrari
2010-07-09 16:14 ` Eric Dumazet
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