Allow named interfaces
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	mb300sd
	Jul 30 2018, 6:38 PM

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Is there any reason we don't allow named interfaces? (tun-NAME instead of tunNNN) Would make keeping track of a large number of interfaces a lot easier. It's valid in other distributions so I don't see a technical reason.

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Is it a breaking change?: Unspecified (possibly destroys the router)
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Mentioned In: T2337: hw-id gone missing from interfaces after upgrade to 1.3-rolling-202004191028

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mb300sd created this task.Jul 30 2018, 6:38 PM

syncer triaged this task as Wishlist priority.Aug 1 2018, 7:48 AM

mb300sd updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 2 2018, 6:15 PM

@mb300sd The reason we do not allo arbitrary names is that there's no easy way to find out exact interface type, so we forced them to begin with eth, br, tun etc. so that scripts can find out what it is and filter only compatible interfaces.
Relaxing the requirements to "starts with keyword" like eth-lan or tun-office would be an interesting idea, but I'm afraid only in the long run, since a number of scripts have regexes like eth\d+ hardcoded in them and it will take time to clean up.

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jjakob mentioned this in T2337: hw-id gone missing from interfaces after upgrade to 1.3-rolling-202004191028.Apr 19 2020, 12:55 PM

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