[pve-devel] [PATCH manager/widget-toolkit 0/2] show altenative interface names in the web ui

[Christoph Heiss]

Tested the series, came across two thing:

Given e.g. the following interface:

    11: ens8: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc [..]
	link/ether 01:02:03:04:05:06 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
	altname nic8
	altname enxdeadff02d073

and the following /etc/network/interfaces snippet:

    auto nic8
    iface nic8 inet manual

the interface will be displayed twice in the network page. If in the
above snippet s/nic8/ens8/ is done (i.e. using the primary name), it
works correctly.

I guess between our /e/n/i parser and the altname mapping the interface
is picked up twice, so this will need some sort of "de-duplication" in
the backend, from what I can gather.

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Further, if an interface has at least two altnames (like above), the
ordering doesn't seem stable across API requests.

E.g. double-click on an interface, close the dialog -> the
altnames will switch around randomly in the table column.
Opening the dialog multiple times yields the same behaviour for the
altname textfield.

On Mon Jul 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM CEST, Dominik Csapak wrote:
> This series goes on top of Stefan Hahnreich's last series[0], but it seems
> there is still some things missing from INotify (to e.g. set the altnames via
> the api), so maybe the helper I introduce in the pve-manager patch will be
> unnecessary, depending if parsing the interfaces file will already return the
> altnames.
>
> Note that the pve-manager patch depends on the widget-toolkit patch
>
> 0: https://lore.proxmox.com/pve-devel/20250709194526.560709-2-s.hanreich@proxmox.com/
>
> proxmox-widget-toolkit:
>
> Dominik Csapak (1):
>   network: optionally show alternative interface names
>
>  src/node/NetworkEdit.js | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  src/node/NetworkView.js | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 39 insertions(+)
>
>
> pve-manager:
>
> Dominik Csapak (1):
>   api/ui: show/return alternative interface names
>
>  PVE/API2/Network.pm         | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  www/manager6/node/Config.js |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>
> Summary over all repositories:
>   4 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)