linux: opt out of naming your tun device yourself#1487
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linux: opt out of naming your tun device yourself#1487
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looks reasonable to me
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| if good { | ||
| if len(candidateName) > 16 { | ||
| return "", errors.New("you have too many nebula networks") |
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I think it would be nice to be a little bit more clear about exactly what's going on here in order to make this error actionable. It's actually OK to have this many nebula networks, but we can't fit the tun name.
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Could also be a pre-flight check and should be included the example config comments/docs. Can't compute a name shorter than unix.IFNAMSIZ if the tunNameTemplate is longer than it to begin with.
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This allows you to end your
tun.devname setting with%dto tell Nebula "please find the lowest-numbered interface that matches this pattern and use it"I'm honestly not sure what would be needed to bring this to other platforms. I think Mac OS mostly doesn't care. Windows seems like it will need different handling as well, but won't break with this change.