From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Chapman Subject: Re: network interface *name* alias support? Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 11:37:38 +0100 Message-ID: <4837EFF2.40807@katalix.com> References: <4836FB73.2010709@intel.com> <4837026A.6000702@hp.com> <1211569604.11907.37.camel@perihelion> <20080523225435.GT20815@postel.suug.ch> <1211603155.11907.79.camel@perihelion> <20080524051630.GD20890@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <4837DCA4.5070806@katalix.com> <1211621632.31212.73.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matt Domsch , Jan Engelhardt , Jon Masters , Thomas Graf , Rick Jones , "Kok, Auke" , johnathan@jonmasters.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Woodhouse Return-path: Received: from s36.avahost.net ([74.53.95.194]:44750 "EHLO s36.avahost.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754301AbYEXKh6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 May 2008 06:37:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1211621632.31212.73.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 10:15 +0100, James Chapman wrote: >> Wouldn't it be better to fix any applications that can't handle >> renamed devices? > > _Are_ there any such applications? Other than NetworkManager crapping > itself when the device name is too long, I'm not aware of any. I think pppd is one such app (multilink and radius features may break), though this thread has only been concerned with eth devices so far. I'm sure I used a command line tool recently that was checking device names for eth%d patterns but I can't remember what it was now. :( -- James Chapman Katalix Systems Ltd http://www.katalix.com Catalysts for your Embedded Linux software development