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Re: Specifying names for tap interfaces



roger.pau%citrix.com@localhost (Roger Pau Monne) writes:

>> Otherwise if you rename "tap0" to "bge3", how do you easily
>> determine that "bge3" is actually a tap device and not a bge?

>I would like to add this functionality to the kernel, but can someone 
>provide a little bit more of technical information/steps about how to do it?

Hopefully not :)

Providing additional alias names might be useful though, but I'd prefer
not to add kernel facilities to hide deficiencies in the application.

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