Re: network interface *name* alias support?
From: Jan Engelhardt <hidden>
Date: 2008-05-24 20:54:16
On Saturday 2008-05-24 22:31, Patrick McHardy wrote:
David Woodhouse wrote:quoted
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:
Run `iptraf -u`, and it works with any name.