From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Cc: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>,
"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
johnathan@jonmasters.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: network interface *name* alias support?
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 00:54:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080523225435.GT20815@postel.suug.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211569604.11907.37.camel@perihelion>
* Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org> 2008-05-23 15:06
> My intention is to also allow for:
>
> ifcfg-slot_<whatever>
>
> Where the configuration is based entirely upon what vendor <XYZ> says is
> the first, second, or third card. Then, those who want to use the older
> names can continue to do so, but those who prefer to base their
> configuration upon the order the vendor states, can do so.
I'd propose to extend the netlink configuration interface, f.e. introduce a
new netlink attribtue IFLA_SLOT which can be provided to select the device
to be changed based on the slot number instead of the name/ifindex. That
would also make it trivial to write a small app using RTM_GETLINK to
translate a slot number to the corresponding interface name.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-23 22:54 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 [this message]
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
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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