Subject: Re: Vlan interface nuisance

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

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.