Bug#1003757: busybox ip ignores peer name on veth pair creation

Michael Tokarev <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:25:12 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.boot
Message-ID <b1e63e50-6beb-49e5-b75c-d8a253c05ba7__25416.8598375813$1785061649$gmane$org@tls.msk.ru>
On Sat, 15 Jan 2022 06:52:26 +0100 mc36 <[email protected]> wrote:

> mc36@noti:~$ sudo /bin/busybox ip link add veth9a type veth peer name veth9b
Actually, busybox's `ip link' ignores everything it doesn't recognize:

  busybox ip link add veth9a type veth foo bar baz  -- this works.

it just skips unrecognized arguments, that's all.

And it's the case in 1.38 in 2026 still.

Thanks,

/mjt