[Bug 172698] system-config-network-tui does not support virtual ethernet devices

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Summary: system-config-network-tui does not support virtual ethernet devices


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=172698


jval at wippies.com changed:

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------- Additional Comments From jval at wippies.com  2008-04-04 03:23 EST -------
Tested in F8. Yes, it doesn't crash anymore.

And it almost works properly too. One small bug: The device alias number setting
in the UI is always 0 (it doesn't read it from the DEVICE= line). If the device
is named e.g. as eth0:1 and you save its settings in the UI, it renames the
device to eth0:0 (modifies the DEVICE= line from eth0:1 to eth0:0). This is a
real problem also, because if you have multiple virtual devices, they all change
to eth0:0 if you modify them in the UI.

This is easy to fix. Make the UI to read the device alias number from the
DEVICE= line. The alias number value is the characters which are in the right
hand side of the ':' character. In regular expression this would be /:(.*)$/ -->
$1 or something (in Perl it would work like that - I don't know Python very
well). If $1 is empty, then you can use 0 as the default value. But if $1 is not
empty, the UI should use that.

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