On Freitag 14 Dezember 2007, you wrote: > Looking at what it does, I think it doesn't need to be specific to > vlan. Couldn't you as well rename any interface with a "name" > parameter? Yes, very true. But renaming vlan interfaces is a special case, not only because they are removed again by ifdown (and for that, keeping the number makes it easier).
For renaming all other kinds of interfaces (physical ones, to be precise), ifrename is currently the preferred solution. However, as vlan interfaces don't exist before ifup is called for them, ifrename can't be used for this case and we consequently need special handling. The combination of the current ifupdown, ifrename, and vlan packages work flawlessly with this small patch applied. best regards, Rene
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