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interface names are too long #1

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lemoer opened this issue Feb 22, 2019 · 1 comment
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interface names are too long #1

lemoer opened this issue Feb 22, 2019 · 1 comment

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lemoer commented Feb 22, 2019

As of now they are generated from the hostname, but interface names in linux can only be 27 (?) characters at maximum. The edge case is for the bridges eg "br_noise-18_client".
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Actually 16 Bytes including nullbyte, so 15 ASCII characters.

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