[olug] USB ethernet interface names too long test

[Rob Townley]

On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 3:21 PM Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:

> root# ip link add dev 1234567890123456 type dummy
> Error: argument "1234567890123456" is wrong: "name" too long
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> root# ip link add dev 123456789012345 type dummy
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> Our Plugable.com usb3me-hub3me usb-to-ethernet  network adapters are named  by default as enx${MacAddress}  which  with the NULL ‘\0’  at the end pushes  it to 16 characters.
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>   enx${MacAddress}.3 does not work to get to vLan 3 because of the name is too long.
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> So will have to use udev rules to rename these devices so that i can get them on the switch management vLan i  locked myself out  of …. yet again.
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i meant to add that i did not come up with that tidbit, it came from
stackoverflow.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24932172/what-length-can-a-network-interface-name-have


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