Re: Specifying names for tap interfaces

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 01:41:26PM +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote:
> > what we get is "this is the 6th instance of the wm driver".
> > We need this information too.
> I don't know whether it's a reasonable idea, but what came to my mind was
> doing it the other way round than giving an interface a label: Let the user
> specify the name of the interface but add something like "driver" and
> "instance" to the information presented by ifconfig. Plus a syntax to
> specify an interface by the unique driver/instance pair.
> Does this make sense?

It does.

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