Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:02:49 -0700 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices |
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:45:55 -0400 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> wrote:
> Mitch Williams (mitch.a.williams@intel.com) said: > > Are spaces allowed in interface names anyway? I can't believe that > > bonding is the only area affected by this. > > 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 '/'. >
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