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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Bug handling devices with weird names
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:19:39 +0200
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Le vendredi 09 juillet 2010 =C3=A0 12:04 +0200, Mart=C3=ADn Ferrari a =C3=
=A9crit :
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 19:27, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.co=
m> wrote:
> > Colons are used for the old IP aliasing. IP aliasing was an older w=
ay of handling
> > multiple addresses per interface, and is not necessary anymore. The=
 syntax is
> > retained for legacy compatibility.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
>=20

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=20
    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