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Bug 100437 - ppp using rp-pppoe plugin only allows limited interface names
Summary: ppp using rp-pppoe plugin only allows limited interface names
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Alin Năstac (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2005-07-27 00:24 UTC by Roy Marples (RETIRED)
Modified: 2005-07-27 14:53 UTC (History)
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rp-pppoe remove interface name check (ppp-rp-pppoe-any-interface.diff,874 bytes, patch)
2005-07-27 00:25 UTC, Roy Marples (RETIRED) 		Details | Diff
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Description Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-07-27 00:24:01 UTC 
ppp using rp-pppoe plugin only allows limited interface names - "ethXXX",
"nasXXX", "tapXXX" or "nic-XXXX".

With is very silly really, as many wireless devices have default names such as
wifi0, wlan0, ath0, ra0, etc - which is the main reason for this patch.

What makes this sillyness even worse is that you can change the name of these
interfaces to wickywoo0 if you really wanted too.
Comment 1 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-07-27 00:25:06 UTC 
Created attachment 64412 [details, diff]
rp-pppoe remove interface name check
Comment 2 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-07-27 14:53:32 UTC 
fixed in ppp-2.4.3-r7 and ppp-2.4.2-r13