On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:52:13 +0200
Claudio Jeker <cje...@diehard.n-r-g.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:34:55PM +0300, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This diff adds possibility for the network interfaces to have an
> > arbitrary names. this is done via ifconfig <oldname> name <newname>
> >
>
> Neat idea, but you do no sanity checking at all. So you could end up
> with two interfaces with the same name (very bad) or an interface
> with a name that violates the naming scheme.
> Since if_xname is used in various places to identify interfaces
> changing their name is dangerous. e.g. pf and the routing daemons use
> interface names in the config. So it is important to do at least a
> bit of sanity checking.
No problem, wait for the second version then :-)
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With best regards,
Gregory Edigarov
