From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: network interfaces called "all", "default" or "config"
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 11:28:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140814112858.35a0cc88@haswell.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsCDOP8DOnB0zZtT_WLhiBXjxXh1aH1eGF9_h0dRN1i9YDU-A@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:41:39 +0100
Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> wrote:
> $ ip link add link eth0 eth0:123 type vlan id 123
> $ ip link del link eth0 eth0:123
> RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
eth0:123 is one of the old style interface names.
Kernel and iproute treat these specially.
Don't use them. They exist only for compatibility with the
dark ages.
You should use period (ie eth0.123) for VLAN's
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-14 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-23 11:33 network interfaces called "all", "default" or "config" Stephane Chazelas
2014-07-23 14:56 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-08-14 9:41 ` Stephane Chazelas
2014-08-14 18:28 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2014-08-14 18:37 ` Cong Wang
2014-08-15 8:33 ` Stephane Chazelas
2014-08-15 17:32 ` Cong Wang
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