> Neat idea, but you do no sanity checking at all. So you could end up with > two interfaces with the same name (very bad) or an interface with a name > that violates the naming scheme. > Since if_xname is used in various places to identify interfaces changing > their name is dangerous. e.g. pf and the routing daemons use interface > names in the config. So it is important to do at least a bit of sanity > checking.
You will find me also not supporting interface renaming. There are just too many subsystems that would need a hook, to cope with such behaviour.
