Network Interfaces - description and groups tags

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 11:22:58AM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> It appears so, in iproute2, which is apparently the not-deprecated
> followup to ifconfig.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iproute2
> http://www.policyrouting.org/iproute2.doc.html#ss9.2.1
> 
> In particular, see:
> 
> label NAME --- Each address may be tagged with a label string.
> In order to preserve compatibility with Linux-2.0 net aliases, this
> string must coincide with the name of the device or must be prefixed
> with device name followed by a colon. (eth0:duh)
> 
> This is interesting; I was not aware that net-tools was being
> deprecated in favor of iproute2.
> 
> The legacy stuff is definitely filled with odd little non-intuitive
> special cases that people are expected to remember.
> 
> If anyone has a good understanding of iproute2, that's the sort of
> thing that might be worth a talk...

I don't think the address label is the same as an interface description.

I thought I saw a field in the interface struct for a description in
the past, but I can't find it now.

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Len Sorensen
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