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

[Dominik Csapak]

On 7/14/25 15:49, Christoph Heiss wrote:
> 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.

yeah i don't touch the which interfaces will be shown, so
that's on the /e/n/i parser

> 
> ---
> 
> 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.

yeah that's true, we probably want a 'sort keys' here, i'll wait until
tomorrow for a v2 if there are other remarks

> 
> 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(-)
>