With a larger mactab (seems to happen at 3 lines and larger), nameif segfaults. Found a debian bug with a working patch.
Created attachment 23533 [details, diff] net-tools-1.60-cleanup-list-handling.diff
Created attachment 23534 [details, diff] net-tools-1.60-r7.ebuild.diff
Installing gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3 caused nameif to segfault, while it worked with development-sources-2.6.1. My /etc/mactab is only 2 lines long. This patch fixes it.
This has been a while. Does anyone care? If not, please RESO WONT and drop nameif, because it's broken now.
sorry, Tony, I'm on it now
tony, have you considered being a dev, btw?
added to portage, thanks Tony -- e-me about the dev thing, or come to irc