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:
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> 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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