[BusyBox] nameif

[Miguel Ángel Álvarez Cabanes]

I have been using nameif in different embedded environments (PPC and
686) without problems.

However, when trying to use it with an STPC Atlas (I think it is based
on a 486) and kernel 2.6.10 (busybox 1.0.0), it allways breaks on:

if (ioctl(ctl_sk, SIOCGIFNAME, &ifr))
	break;

I am not quite sure about the causes of the problem, but I have solved
it adding an option that allows to set the old name of the interface...
(which I think it coulf be quite useful because you don't need to know
the MAC of your device).

I suppose that using this I could also eliminate the use of:
/* Has this device hwaddr? */
if (ioctl(ctl_sk, SIOCGIFHWADDR, &ifr))
	continue;

but I have maintained it for compatibility.

Has anybody experience the same problems with nameif?

Thanks

Miguel Ángel 
 
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