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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn_Ferrari?= <martin.ferrari@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Bug handling devices with weird names
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:04:21 +0200
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On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 19:27, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>=
 wrote:
> Colons are used for the old IP aliasing. IP aliasing was an older way=
 of handling
> multiple addresses per interface, and is not necessary anymore. The s=
yntax is
> retained for legacy compatibility.

I know, but there is some code that is not accepting any valid name.
So i am able to create the device but then I cannot do some stuff. So
that's why I think this is a bug.


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