How many characters can a network interface name contain?
Issue
- How many characters can a network interface name contain?
- What is the length limit of NIC renaming?
- My long network device name is truncated or shortened to 15 characters.
- What is
IFNAMSIZ?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Network Interfaces
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