From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: Make interface aliases available for general usage Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 14:40:39 -0800 Message-ID: <20150111144039.426f0c48@urahara> References: <1421009571-5279-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> <1421009571-5279-2-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, coreteam@netfilter.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bhutchings@solarflare.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, vyasevic@redhat.com, jiri@resnulli.us, vfalico@gmail.com, therbert@google.com, edumazet@google.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jmorris@namei.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu, kaber@trash.net, pablo@netfilter.org, kay@vrfy.org To: Richard Weinberger Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1421009571-5279-2-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 21:52:49 +0100 Richard Weinberger wrote: > Allow interface aliases to be used as regular interfaces. > Such that a command sequence like this one works: > $ ip l set eth0 alias internet > $ ip a s internet > $ tcpdump -n -i internet > > Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger There is already a ifalias and it is used by SNMP. But the common practice is to put longer descriptive names which aren't going to be usable and there is no requirement that they be unique. I think you can't do this without breaking some of our users.