iproute2 seems to like to add @ and : info to it's output. This makes parsing it hard for things like neutron (openstack). I have a patch to slightly update it (still missing some things, I'll link it at the end if interested). Is there a better way of getting interface names from iproute2 without having to strip out at characters like '@' and ':'? changeset in neutron: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/154128/ link to current code: https://github.com/openstack/neutron/blob/master/neutron/agent/linux/ip_lib.py#L110-L131 I'd appreciate your help, I'd rather not have to go through each link type to pull it's delimiter, but if needed I guess it's needed. -- Matthew Thode