Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jan 2015 14:40:39 -0800 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: Make interface aliases available for general usage |
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On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 21:52:49 +0100 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
> Allow interface aliases to be used as regular interfaces. > Such that a command sequence like this one works: > $ ip l set eth0 alias internet > $ ip a s internet > $ tcpdump -n -i internet > > Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
There is already a ifalias and it is used by SNMP. But the common practice is to put longer descriptive names which aren't going to be usable and there is no requirement that they be unique.
I think you can't do this without breaking some of our users.
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