netdev - Re: Bug handling devices with weird names

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Message-ID: <1278670779.2696.1.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:19:39 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Martín Ferrari <martin.ferrari@...il.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@...hia.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Bug handling devices with weird names

Le vendredi 09 juillet 2010 à 12:04 +0200, Martín Ferrari a écrit :
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 19:27, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> wrote:
> > Colons are used for the old IP aliasing. IP aliasing was an older way of handling
> > multiple addresses per interface, and is not necessary anymore. The syntax is
> > retained for legacy compatibility.
> 
> I know, but there is some code that is not accepting any valid name.
> So i am able to create the device but then I cannot do some stuff. So
> that's why I think this is a bug.
> 
> 

Update user land tools ?

No problem here :

# ip link add name foo: type dummy
# ip link list foo:
14: foo:: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN 
    link/ether e6:48:a9:57:d4:1f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
# ip link del foo:
# ip -V
ip utility, iproute2-ss100519


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