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

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Andrzej,

I upgraded the kernel in CVS to 3.2.9 over the weekend. Could you  
verify that this problem still exists in the newer version?
If yes, then I don't see an issue with adding the patch.

Heiko

Quoting Andrzej Odyniec <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


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