From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [RFC] Stable interface index option Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 14:31:10 -0800 Message-ID: <20151201143110.39ec3e99@xeon-e3> References: <20151201080652.5cba6f8b@xeon-e3> <20151201.142847.1980856920707150414.davem@davemloft.net> <20151201122038.795305df@xeon-e3> <20151201.155725.733555238839381632.davem@davemloft.net> <1449004499.3829359.455124521.608D0A9E@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20151201134407.3018adcc@xeon-e3> <1449006894.3839234.455160217.6BE59AFD@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , max@rfc2324.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Hannes Frederic Sowa Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f42.google.com ([209.85.220.42]:35321 "EHLO mail-pa0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757188AbbLAWbC (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2015 17:31:02 -0500 Received: by pacej9 with SMTP id ej9so18627252pac.2 for ; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:31:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1449006894.3839234.455160217.6BE59AFD@webmail.messagingengine.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:54:54 +0100 Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015, at 22:44, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:14:59 +0100 > > Hannes Frederic Sowa 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): > > > 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