Re: [Devil-linux-develop] iptraf and OpenVPN tun interfaces

[Andrzej O. <an...@ma...>]

Heiko,

Linux kernel (now 3.2.6) shows network interfaces in file /proc/net/dev not 
sorted, so far, but in some strange, random order. Network interfaces and 
tunnel pseudointerfaces are mixed. Meanwhile IPtraf builds an interface menu 
as well as the list of interfaces to the general statistics based on this 
file. If the router has a several interfaces, finding the appropriate becomes 
very difficult.

I wrote the following patch to solve this problem, because I have on my 
central router several OpenVPN tunnels to office branches. So after building a 
list of interfaces, this list is also sorted lexicographically by name.

In addition, in file /var/iptraf/iface.desc we can assign aliases and sorting 
keys for interfaces, in this way easily managing list. File is described in 
intro to patch.

Regards

Andrzej Odyniec