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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: Vlan interface nuisance
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:45:43 +0100
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Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>,
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Herbert Xu wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com> wrote:
>>> In any case, ip(8) allows you to set the name to whatever you
>>> want at creation time.  So for those nostalgics you can still
>>> use ethX.Y through ip.
>>>   
>> Yes but their is no indication as to which interface was just created.
> 
> You should be able to set the name at creation time.
> 
> The default is only used if you didn't specify an explicit name.

Indeed. The kernel also sends notifications, so iproute could print
the generated name if none was specified.