Add a potential future problem I can see with metric calculation and interfaces that change often.
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
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| - oldnet[bridging]: Review setting of bridge configuration on dynamic interface add | ||||
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| - Document rc-depend binary. | ||||
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| - _ifindex is not a reliable means of calculating metrics: | ||||
| 	_ifindex is used for calculating metrics for new devices but has a major | ||||
| 	problem: Since it's only the nth entry in /proc/net/dev | ||||
| 	And devices may be removed from that file, and reordered, you won't always | ||||
| 	get the same result. | ||||
| 	If you do: | ||||
| 	- add eth0 - _ifindex (eth0=0) | ||||
| 	- add vlan1 - _ifindex (eth0=0,vlan1=1) | ||||
| 	- add vlan2 - _ifindex (eth0=0,vlan1=1,vlan2=2) | ||||
| 	- rem vlan1 - _ifindex (eth0=0,vlan2=1) | ||||
| 	- add vlan3 - _ifindex (eth0=0,vlan2=1,vlan3=2) | ||||
| 	Now your routing table has entries for both vlan2 and vlan3 with a metric of 2. | ||||
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