On (08/02/09 09:35), Darren Reed wrote: >> "@" bge0 at foo (or even foo at bge0) could be confused with the user at host >> context >> > > huh? > are you saying I might confuse "ping bge0 at sowmini" with an email address? > or something else?
I'm saying that the "@" has special meaning in the context of email addrs, or even rsh/ssh. I don't know if that creates issues for some tools. For example, I can do "ssh root at 127.0.0.1" or "ssh admin1 at 127.0.0.1". Of course, ipadm labels are private to ipadm, and are not going to be supported by ssh's CLI, but since we entered this discussion about conflicts with ipfilter's use of "/", then we'd have to make sure that the "@", if used, would not create similar problems. Given that any char that we pick as the link/"slot" separator would have to be explicitly excluded from the linkname alphabet, I'd postulate that "-" is the safer choice. --Sowmini
