Subject: Re: Vlan interface nuisance

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:51:01 -0800

On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:49:18 +0100
Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > Lennart Sorensen wrote, On 03/02/2009 06:20 PM:
> > 
> >> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:47:31PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >>> Why is interface created through netlink named 'vlan0' and
> >>> interface created through old vconfig called 'ethX.YY'.
> >>> Seems like the interface should be consistent.
> >> That does seem silly.
> >>
> >> ethX.YYYY told you which physical interface and which vlan number it was.
> >>
> >> vlan0 tells you nothing useful.
> >  
> > 
> > Even if you have only one ethX?
> 
> The binding is displayed when listing interfaces. This hole
> argument is silly, if you want a particular name, just specify
> it. The current naming schemes are entirely based on information
> that you have to specify anyways.

I overlooked the obvious:
 ip li add link eth1 name eth1.44 type vlan id 44

Setting the name overrides.