On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 07:49, Paul Wouters <p...@nohats.ca> wrote:
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> > On Jan 24, 2020, at 13:44, Andrew Cagney <andrew.cag...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> They do. no = 0, yes = 1 and the man page does not explain this.
> >
> > So if I specify:
> >  ipsec-interface=no
> > I get interface 0, and:
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> No, you get no interface because 0 means no. This is because the current 
> Linux implementation uses IF_ID which does not see 0 as a valid ID.

Should it be =%no - since reserved tokens mostly start with %; then =0
can be an error?

> >  ipsec-interface=1
> > I get a random interface?
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> You get ipsec1, same as when specifying “yes”.

I think that's confusing.  Especially if we've reserved %random or
%unique or something as a future enhancement.

> In the future, %unique will mean get a (pseudo)random interface name.
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> I’m not sure what happens when you pick “10”, as I was confused about the 
> numbers maybe being in hex ?

If I use =10, do I see xfrmi10 (or what ever) when listing interfaces?

> Paul
>
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