On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:37:25 +0200 Serhey Popovych <serhe.popov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Both of them accept network device name as argument, but have different > meaning: > > dev - is a device by it's name, > name - name for specific device device. > > The only case where they treated separately is network device rename > case where need to specify both ifindex and new name. In rest of the > cases we can assume that dev == name. I would rather keep name as only being a valid argument for set command. And reject use of: ip li show name eth0
