Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:08:26 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4][RFC] netns: sysfs: add a netns suffix to net device sysfs entries |
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Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 05:21:44PM +0200, Benjamin Thery wrote: >> Network devices from sub-network namespaces appear in sysfs >> with a name that looks like this: device_name@netns_id >> eg: lo@3, eth0@4e > > How does the default udev rules as shipped by most distros handle the > renaming of the network device if the MAC address is duplicated like it > will be for these eth devices?
The mac address is not duplicated.
Further devices like eth0@4e are completely unusable to the udev rules in the initial network namespace because they can not talk to or affect them.
As I read it Ben's ``solution'' puts entries in sysfs that are completely unusable to udev.
Eric
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