Bug 206917
| Summary: | ifconfig does not show the full interface name | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Lumir <srchlm> | ||||
| Component: | net-tools | Assignee: | Radek Vokál <rvokal> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 4.0 | CC: | awashbro, tao | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2008-0691 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-07-24 19:36:59 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Created attachment 147095 [details]
trim_iface
This should fix the problem. Patch from Rawhide.
*** Bug 252017 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0691.html |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: This problem is related to ifconfig limitation which show only first 9 characters of network interface name. We created the bond0 interface tagged with VLAN 103. The name of the interface was bond0.103 that have 9 characters total. Then we created aliases to this interface but ifconfig still showed only the bond0.103 name without :0, :1 supplements to aliases IPs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): net-tools-1.60-37.EL4.6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create network interface with name longer than 9 characters 2.Run ifconfig 3. Actual Results: bond0.103 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:72:69:FE:FE inet addr:10.0.3.4 Bcast:10.0.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Expected Results: bond0.103:1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:72:69:FE:FE inet addr:10.0.3.4 Bcast:10.0.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Additional info: