Trying to set a label longer than 15 characters returns an error: RTNETLINK answers: Numerical result out of range
Document the limit in the manpage. Originally reported as a Debian bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661886 Reported-by: Gabor Kiss <ki...@ssg.ki.iif.hu> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> --- man/man8/ip-address.8.in | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/man/man8/ip-address.8.in b/man/man8/ip-address.8.in index eaa179c6..7ebf0bc9 100644 --- a/man/man8/ip-address.8.in +++ b/man/man8/ip-address.8.in @@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ 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. +The maximum allowed total length of label is 15 characters. .TP .BI scope " SCOPE_VALUE" -- 2.14.2
