From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: Vlan interface nuisance Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:57:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090302.015752.87125075.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090302073912.GA17328@gondor.apana.org.au> <49ABAAC7.6070806@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com, shemminger@vyatta.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: kaber@trash.net Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:46046 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756483AbZCBJ6I (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Mar 2009 04:58:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <49ABAAC7.6070806@trash.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Patrick McHardy Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:45:43 +0100 > Herbert Xu wrote: > > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > >>> In any case, ip(8) allows you to set the name to whatever you > >>> want at creation time. So for those nostalgics you can still > >>> use ethX.Y through ip. > >>> > >> Yes but their is no indication as to which interface was just created. > > You should be able to set the name at creation time. > > The default is only used if you didn't specify an explicit name. > > Indeed. The kernel also sends notifications, so iproute could print > the generated name if none was specified. I considered this issue closed 6 emails ago. I don't know why Stephen keeps persisting. :-)