Re: Specifying names for tap interfaces

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

Am 22 juin 2012 um 13:20 schrieb Manuel Bouyer 
<bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>:

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 02:57:09PM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
>>> it'll be longer anyway, because the point of aliases (beside fixing
>>> xen problems) is to give meaningfull names. typing 'team-foo-dmz' will
>>> always be longer than 'wm0'. prefixing it with keywork: isn't a big
>>> deal.
>> 
>> So you want add a label to a network interface?
>> 
>> Sort of how we can label a disk?
> 
> It would be more like a GPT label than a plain disk label, but yes,
> that's the idea. With the restriction that multiple interfaces can't have
> the same label at the same time in a system. And I want to be able
> to lookup interfaces by label instead of by name (BTW, I want to do this
> with gpt partitions too, even if right now we can't do that).

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I like the idea of a label, it makes a 
lot of sense. 

--Benny.