Package: iproute
Version: 20100519-3
Severity: wishlist
ip(8) writes:
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 the device name followed by colon.
I found (with 2.6.32 kernel) that the full lenght of label must not
exceed 15 characters. Otherwise I get an error message:
"RTNETLINK answers: Numerical result out of range"
So the following labels are acceptable:
lo:abcdefghijkl
eth2:abcdefghij
while these are not:
lo:abcdefghijklm
eth2:abcdefghijk
I think it would be useful to mention this in the manual.
Gabor
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages iproute depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdb4.8 4.8.30-2 Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [
Versions of packages iproute recommends:
ii libatm1 1:2.5.1-1.2 shared library for ATM (Asynchrono
Versions of packages iproute suggests:
pn iproute-doc <none> (no description available)
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