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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	max@rfc2324.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Stable interface index option
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 14:31:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151201143110.39ec3e99@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449006894.3839234.455160217.6BE59AFD@webmail.messagingengine.com>

On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:54:54 +0100
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015, at 22:44, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:14:59 +0100
> > Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> wrote:
> > > I had several snmp installations with net-snmp and munin, cacti and so
> > > on and all had the interface name in ifDescription already some years
> > > back.
> > 
> > In net-snmp 5.7 or later ifDescr is set to result of pci_lookup_name
> > (by default).
> 
> Seems the data should simply be in ifName nowadays (unconfirmed):
> <http://www.net-snmp.org/docs/mibs/ifMIBObjects.html>
> 
> Bye,
> Hannes

By default
  ifDescr == ifName == interface name (ie eth0, enp0s1, ...)
If the device is on PCI bus then result is like:


IF-MIB::ifDescr.2 = STRING: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
IF-MIB::ifName.2 = STRING: enp3s0

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-01 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-01 12:04 [RFC] Stable interface index option Maximilian Wilhelm
2015-12-01 15:34 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-01 15:50   ` Maximilian Wilhelm
2015-12-01 16:02     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-12-01 16:06       ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-01 19:28         ` David Miller
2015-12-01 20:20           ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-01 20:57             ` David Miller
2015-12-01 21:06               ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-01 21:14               ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-12-01 21:44                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-01 21:54                   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-12-01 22:31                     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-12-01 19:27       ` David Miller
2015-12-01 20:26         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-12-01 22:43           ` Maximilian Wilhelm
2015-12-01 23:58             ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-12-02  1:41               ` Andrew Lunn
2015-12-02 11:03               ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2015-12-01 16:11     ` Sowmini Varadhan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-12-01 16:10 Maximilian Wilhelm

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