On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 23:01:24 +0100 Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> wrote:
> Trying to set a label longer than 15 characters returns an error: > RTNETLINK answers: Numerical result out of range > > Document the limit in the manpage. > > Originally reported as a Debian bug: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661886 > > Reported-by: Gabor Kiss <ki...@ssg.ki.iif.hu> > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> > --- > man/man8/ip-address.8.in | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/man/man8/ip-address.8.in b/man/man8/ip-address.8.in > index eaa179c6..e7f14533 100644 > --- a/man/man8/ip-address.8.in > +++ b/man/man8/ip-address.8.in > @@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ 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. > +The maximum allowed length is 15 characters. Since these are aliases, lets be precise: The maximum allowed total length of label is 15 characters.
