Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Thursday 2010-02-04 17:49, Patrick McHardy wrote: >> Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>>> The kernel also forbids ".". >>> My first thought was the same, but: >>> >>> a) Interestingly, it does not prohibit '.' >>> >>> ip tunnel add foo0.3 mode sit local 1.2.3.4 remote 5.6.7.8 >>> >>> b) The '.' is to be seen as valid as far as xtables.c goes, so >>> as to match VLAN interfaces. >> Ah of course, its only invalid at the beginning of the name. >> > Nope: > > 19:44 borg:/home/jengelh # ip tunnel add .3 mode sit local 1.2.3.6 remote > 5.6.7.7 > 19:44 borg:/home/jengelh # ip a > 17: .3: <POINTOPOINT,NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop state DOWN > link/sit 1.2.3.6 peer 5.6.7.7 OK you're right, but this seems to be an oversight. The names are checked during rename, but not on device registration. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
