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

On 30/07/2014 21:35, Stefan Gehn wrote:
> 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
Hello,

Indeed, Debian bug report matchs exactly my initial need, and thought (I
should have seen it, I'm a Debian user!): having a filter (for instance
a regex) to select which interface to show at runtime, whenever a new
one shows up.
Actually I was initially trying to implement that (regex...), but
finally, I ended up with just allowing to not enable any new interface
by default, because it looked lighter with regard to the code, and
actually also reached the goal.

Best regards,
Pierre