netdev - Re: Vlan interface nuisance

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Message-ID: <20090302193604.GI23244@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:36:05 -0500
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Vlan interface nuisance

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 07:51:08PM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> Even if you have only one ethX?

Yes.  What vlan number is vlan0 talking to on ethX?

Not that eth0 ever told you much useful, but at least eth0.0005 told
you something.  I guess vconfig chose the name anyhow before, so no
reason to not continue to let user space take care of what to name it.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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