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Netload-plugin cannot handle predictable interface names.
Status:
RESOLVED: DUPLICATE
Product:
Xfce4-netload-plugin
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Description ingo_brunberg 2013-01-26 18:19:22 CET
The new udev/systemd 197 introduces the so called predictable network interface names. The netload-plugin does not work with those names. The interface check fails. One reason is that the code limits the maximum length of interface names to 10 characters.
Comment 1 hager 2013-01-26 23:29:45 CET
Created attachment 4881 
Workaround for extending the maximum interface name size (+10 chars)

On Linux, max size definition should rather be retrieved from  <net/if.h> (IFNAMSIZ).
It is currently 16. So extending from 10 to 20 should be enough for now, but it is not clean.
Anyway, this patch allowed be to monitor my wireless interface.
Comment 2 fberger 2013-07-28 12:07:41 CEST
Sadly there apparently has not been a fix in half a year.

I'd raise the importance of this one. After all, without the patch the plugin becomes completely defunct on any system with a recent udev (as just happened with me).
Comment 3 Landry Breuil editbugs 2014-11-23 21:44:33 CET
Mass-reassign all bugs from florian@ to goodies-dev@, thanks for the maintenance work! (and sorry for the bugmail spam..)
Comment 4 Skunnyk editbugs 2020-05-21 01:22:05 CEST

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9869 ***

Bug #9807

Reported by:
ingo_brunberg
Reported on: 2013-01-26
Last modified on: 2020-05-21

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Xfce-Goodies Maintainers
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2 users

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