Ondrej Zajicek <santi...@crfreenet.org> writes:

> See following code in nl_parse_link() in sysdep/linux/netlink.c :
[...]
>       if (ifi && strncmp(ifi->name, name, sizeof(ifi->name)-1))
>         if_delete(ifi);

Yes, I see.  That ought to do it, if you're sure that this is a Linux-
specific problem.  (I don't know enough about how other systems handle
their routing tables to tell and erred on the side of caution.)

> I tested interface renaming in current upstream (1.3.10 prerelease)
> and it worked OK. As BIRD in Wheezy is in version 1.3.7 (which should
> contain fix from the commit mentioned above) i would expect it is OK
> too.
>
> Do you experience the problem even with unpatched Wheezy package?

No, everything appears to be fine, in fact.  Thanks for letting me know.

I now feel rather bad about being so harsh to Ondřej Surý when in fact
everything was fine and I hadn't actually checked.  Sorry about that.
Looks like this one's good to close.

-- [mdw]


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