When re-naming an interface, the previous secondary address labels get lost e.g.
$> brctl addbr foo $> ip addr add 192.168.0.1 dev foo $> ip addr add 192.168.0.2 dev foo label foo:00 $> ip addr show dev foo | grep inet inet 192.168.0.1/32 scope global foo inet 192.168.0.2/32 scope global foo:00 $> ip link set foo name bar $> ip addr show dev bar | grep inet inet 192.168.0.1/32 scope global bar inet 192.168.0.2/32 scope global bar:2 Turns out to be a simple thinko in inetdev_changename() - clearly we want to look at the address label, rather than the device name, for a suffix to retain. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/ipv4/devinet.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c index 3168c3d..b42f746 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c @@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ static void inetdev_changename(struct net_device *dev, struct in_device *in_dev) memcpy(ifa->ifa_label, dev->name, IFNAMSIZ); if (named++ == 0) continue; - dot = strchr(ifa->ifa_label, ':'); + dot = strchr(old, ':'); if (dot == NULL) { sprintf(old, ":%d", named); dot = old; -- 1.5.3.6 -- 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