Stephen Hemminger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > They're certainly allowed, and the sysfs directory structure, files, > > etc. handle it ok. Userspace tends to break in a variety of ways. > > > > I believe the only invalid character in an interface name is '/'. > > > > The names "." and ".." are also verboten.
Right. Well, I suspect they're verboten-because-some-code-breaks-making-the-directory. > Names with : in them are for IP aliases. That's certainly not enforced at the kernel level. Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
