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Re: Specifying names for tap interfaces



Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:54:43AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
Thor Lancelot Simon<tls%panix.com@localhost>  writes:

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:51:13AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
It seems easy enough to add the ioctl and see if things blow up...
You can be pretty sure ipf, pf, and npf will blow up.
Because they watch interface creation and keep matching state?  Or do
you just mean that rules written for tap3 will no longer match?

Rename the interface.  Now watch what happens when you try to load new
rules.  Now tell ipfilter, for example, to "resynchronize the interface
list" (ipf -y).  Imagine the fun possible if interfaces change names,
old interfaces, with rules affixed, still exist but the names no longer
match, etc...

Changing the if_xname directly with an ioctl call yells the following when doing an ifconfig -a:

ifconfig: status: getifinfo: Device not configured

I think a lot of fun is possible, and likely.

I don't know if there's interest in giving tap interfaces different names (apart from my case), if so I can follow this path and try to add a correct way to change a device name, but I just don't want to waste time following a path that is not going to give us a desirable solution.

Roger.


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