Subject: Re: Vlan interface nuisance

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:57:52 -0800 (PST)

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:45:43 +0100

> Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >>> In any case, ip(8) allows you to set the name to whatever you
> >>> want at creation time.  So for those nostalgics you can still
> >>> use ethX.Y through ip.
> >>>   
> >> Yes but their is no indication as to which interface was just created.
> > You should be able to set the name at creation time.
> > The default is only used if you didn't specify an explicit name.
> 
> Indeed. The kernel also sends notifications, so iproute could print
> the generated name if none was specified.

I considered this issue closed 6 emails ago.

I don't know why Stephen keeps persisting. :-)