From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Vlan interface nuisance
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 23:30:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090302223011.GA3388@ami.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49AC545E.3090708@trash.net>
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:49:18PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Jarek Poplawski wrote:
>> Lennart Sorensen wrote, On 03/02/2009 06:20 PM:
>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:47:31PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>>> Why is interface created through netlink named 'vlan0' and
>>>> interface created through old vconfig called 'ethX.YY'.
>>>> Seems like the interface should be consistent.
>>> That does seem silly.
>>>
>>> ethX.YYYY told you which physical interface and which vlan number it was.
>>>
>>> vlan0 tells you nothing useful.
>>
>>
>> Even if you have only one ethX?
>
> The binding is displayed when listing interfaces. This hole
> argument is silly, if you want a particular name, just specify
> it. The current naming schemes are entirely based on information
> that you have to specify anyways.
Just for the record, I don't agree with calling "this" argument silly
just like it was with "that" argument. Actually, I think they are
both so "right" that I've changed my mind and think it's great each
tool does it differently...
Jarek P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-02 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-02 4:47 Vlan interface nuisance Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-02 4:57 ` David Miller
2009-03-02 5:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-02 5:28 ` David Miller
2009-03-02 9:44 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-02 6:50 ` Herbert Xu
2009-03-02 7:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-02 7:39 ` Herbert Xu
2009-03-02 9:45 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-02 9:57 ` David Miller
2009-03-02 17:20 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-03-02 18:51 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-03-02 18:56 ` Ben Greear
2009-03-02 19:06 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-03-02 19:23 ` Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-03-02 20:24 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-03-02 21:52 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-02 19:36 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-03-02 20:07 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-03-02 21:49 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-02 21:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-02 21:54 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-02 22:30 ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2009-03-02 23:35 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-03 6:41 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-03-03 6:53 ` Ben Greear
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