Package: iproute Version: 20100519-3 Severity: wishlist ip(8) writes: label NAME Each address may be tagged with a label string. In order to preserve compatibility with Linux-2.0 net aliases, this string must coincide with the name of the device or must be prefixed with the device name followed by colon.
I found (with 2.6.32 kernel) that the full lenght of label must not exceed 15 characters. Otherwise I get an error message: "RTNETLINK answers: Numerical result out of range" So the following labels are acceptable: lo:abcdefghijkl eth2:abcdefghij while these are not: lo:abcdefghijklm eth2:abcdefghijk I think it would be useful to mention this in the manual. Gabor -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages iproute depends on: ii libc6 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdb4.8 4.8.30-2 Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [ Versions of packages iproute recommends: ii libatm1 1:2.5.1-1.2 shared library for ATM (Asynchrono Versions of packages iproute suggests: pn iproute-doc <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org