David Woodhouse wrote:

On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 10:15 +0100, James Chapman wrote:

quoted

Wouldn't it be better to fix any applications that can't handle
renamed devices?

_Are_ there any such applications? Other than NetworkManager crapping
itself when the device name is too long, I'm not aware of any.

iptraf uses device names to determine the device type:

char ifaces[][6] =
     { "lo", "eth", "sl", "ppp", "ippp", "plip", "fddi", "isdn", "dvb",
     "pvc", "hdlc", "ipsec", "sbni", "tr", "wvlan", "wlan", "sm2", "sm3",
     "pent", "lec", "brg", "tun", "tap", "cipcb", "tunl", "vlan", "ath",
     "ra"
};

and

         if (strncmp(ifname, "eth", 3) == 0)
             result = LINK_ETHERNET;
         else if (strncmp(ifname, "ath", 3) == 0)
             result = LINK_ETHERNET;
         else if (strncmp(ifname, "plip", 4) == 0)
             result = LINK_PLIP;
...