From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org> Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 17:02:23 +0100
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015, at 16:50, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: >> > I'm not sure I understand how this would work- are we going to >> > pin down the ifindex for some subset of interfaces? >> >> I'm not sure what your idea is, but I guess we might mean the same >> thing: >> >> What I have in mind is that the user can supply a list of (ifname -> >> ifindex) entries via a sysfs/procfs interface and if such a list is >> present, the kernel will search the list for every ifname which is >> registered and check if there is an entry. If there is, the ifindex >> for this entry is used. If there is no entry found for the given >> ifname, the usual algorithm is used (therefore inherently providing >> backward compatibility). > > Sorry to ask because I don't like this feature at all. There was a lot > of work on stable interface names. Why do you need stable ifindexes, > which were never meant to be stable for a longer amount of time? Because all the remote SNMP tools work with interface indexes, not names. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
