Mouse wrote:
Dareen pointed out that such name would cause problems with various tools. I guess bpf is not the only place that needs to be fixed.It is far better to accept "<name><number>" as a naming constraint than to try and "fix" all of the code that in one way or another expects it to be like that.Why?
Because like it or not, that is the accepted defacto naming standard for network interfaces on Un*x systems. Darren