From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
max@rfc2324.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Stable interface index option
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 14:31:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151201143110.39ec3e99@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449006894.3839234.455160217.6BE59AFD@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:54:54 +0100
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015, at 22:44, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:14:59 +0100
> > Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> wrote:
> > > I had several snmp installations with net-snmp and munin, cacti and so
> > > on and all had the interface name in ifDescription already some years
> > > back.
> >
> > In net-snmp 5.7 or later ifDescr is set to result of pci_lookup_name
> > (by default).
>
> Seems the data should simply be in ifName nowadays (unconfirmed):
> <http://www.net-snmp.org/docs/mibs/ifMIBObjects.html>
>
> Bye,
> Hannes
By default
ifDescr == ifName == interface name (ie eth0, enp0s1, ...)
If the device is on PCI bus then result is like:
IF-MIB::ifDescr.2 = STRING: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
IF-MIB::ifName.2 = STRING: enp3s0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-01 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-01 12:04 [RFC] Stable interface index option Maximilian Wilhelm
2015-12-01 15:34 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-01 15:50 ` Maximilian Wilhelm
2015-12-01 16:02 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-12-01 16:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-01 19:28 ` David Miller
2015-12-01 20:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-01 20:57 ` David Miller
2015-12-01 21:06 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-01 21:14 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-12-01 21:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-01 21:54 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-12-01 22:31 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-12-01 19:27 ` David Miller
2015-12-01 20:26 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-12-01 22:43 ` Maximilian Wilhelm
2015-12-01 23:58 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-12-02 1:41 ` Andrew Lunn
2015-12-02 11:03 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2015-12-01 16:11 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-01 16:10 Maximilian Wilhelm
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