meem wrote: > "Has to be kept distinct" because of my objections, or because you also > agree that it would cause confusion?
confusion is in the eye of the beholder, and this thread shows that there's room for that here.. On (07/17/09 11:31), Erik Nordmark wrote: > > Even if we use /n instead of :n to try to keep this separate from the > logical interface numbers I think we'd spend a year of our lives > explaining that the number in the label has nothing to do with the > number that ifconfig -a reports. true. > Thus I think it is better to either have free text labels. Or we could > do alphabetic instead numeric e.g net0/a and net0/b. With alphabetic we > could still auto-assign them. I like that suggestion.. the "/" saves us from collision with both the hostname and the interface name-space. And I suppose we can now drop the "-i" argument to addr commands since we embed the interface in "label". Thoughts? --Sowmini
