From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>,
Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>,
"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
johnathan@jonmasters.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: network interface *name* alias support?
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 22:31:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48387B18.2090300@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211621632.31212.73.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
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.
iptraf uses device names to determine the device type:
char ifaces[][6] =
{ "lo", "eth", "sl", "ppp", "ippp", "plip", "fddi", "isdn", "dvb",
"pvc", "hdlc", "ipsec", "sbni", "tr", "wvlan", "wlan", "sm2", "sm3",
"pent", "lec", "brg", "tun", "tap", "cipcb", "tunl", "vlan", "ath",
"ra"
};
and
if (strncmp(ifname, "eth", 3) == 0)
result = LINK_ETHERNET;
else if (strncmp(ifname, "ath", 3) == 0)
result = LINK_ETHERNET;
else if (strncmp(ifname, "plip", 4) == 0)
result = LINK_PLIP;
...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-24 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-23 16:31 network interface *name* alias support? Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-23 17:14 ` Kok, Auke
2008-05-23 17:44 ` Rick Jones
2008-05-23 19:06 ` Jon Masters
2008-05-23 19:11 ` Jon Masters
2008-05-23 20:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-23 20:55 ` Jon Masters
2008-05-23 22:54 ` Thomas Graf
2008-05-24 4:25 ` Jon Masters
2008-05-24 4:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-24 5:16 ` Matt Domsch
2008-05-24 9:15 ` James Chapman
2008-05-24 9:33 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 10:37 ` James Chapman
2008-05-24 20:31 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-05-24 20:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-25 3:07 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-25 12:17 ` David Miller
2008-05-27 19:03 ` Matt Domsch
2008-05-27 21:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-27 22:11 ` Thomas Graf
2008-05-24 18:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-21 22:47 Jon Masters
2008-05-23 13:07 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 14:50 ` Jon Masters
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