weirdness in interface.c routine get_name()

Michael S. Zick mszick at morethan.org
Tue Jun 20 12:17:56 UTC 2006


On Tue June 20 2006 05:24, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> 
>   also, will the file /proc/net/dev actually contain interface alias
> names?  on my FC system, i used ifconfig to create a totally bogus
> alias name, eth0:1, but that name never appeared in that file.  can
> anyone else confirm that interface aliases will really show up there?
> 
Just checked kernel-2.6.14 and kernel-2.4.22 no alias names in /proc/net/dev

The code for alias accounting was changed in kernel-2.2.something -
You may be looking at code supporting kernels before 2.2.x

Mike



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