Stephen, Am 11.01.2015 um 23:40 schrieb Stephen Hemminger: > On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 21:52:49 +0100 > Richard Weinberger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Allow interface aliases to be used as regular interfaces. >> Such that a command sequence like this one works: >> $ ip l set eth0 alias internet >> $ ip a s internet >> $ tcpdump -n -i internet >> >> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]> > > There is already a ifalias and it is used by SNMP. > But the common practice is to put longer descriptive names which aren't going > to be usable and there is no requirement that they be unique.
Actually I'm using ifalias. This patch just exposes it. > I think you can't do this without breaking some of our users. My idea was that udev will not set the alias if already one is used. Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
