Bug 100437

Summary:	ppp using rp-pppoe plugin only allows limited interface names
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Roy Marples (RETIRED) <uberlord>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Alin Năstac (RETIRED) <mrness>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	rp-pppoe remove interface name check

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