Re: patch: allow to not enable any new network interface by default

On 30.07.2014, at 21:07, Patrice Levesque <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Recently, I began using docker.io on my workstation and got bothered
>> with the fact it creates a lot of virtual network interfaces (e.g.
>> vethXXXX) that automatically show up in gkrellm.
> 
> Wow, I really could use this; monitoring VM hypervisors, everytime a VM
> is spawned a new tap interface is created and I need to remove it
> manually from the gkrellm instance.  Not a big deal, but your
> patch is something I'd use for sure (as the tabbed Net
> configuration panel does not really scale to tens of network interfaces,
> it quickly becomes cumbersome to manage).

That indeed sounds very much like it could solve Debian Bug #734176 as well.
I’ll take a look at integrating the patch in the next few days.

Regards,
Stefan Gehn