If we want to have both automatically generated and human-friendly names,
we can give us the possibility to set an Alias for each of them.
Storing the ID as a number (or postgres MAC type) may significantly increase
the query
processing speed, then using a prefix may not be necessary anymore.

-Walter

2011/4/26 Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>

> If you are committed to postgres, postgres has a native mac type.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/datatype-net-types.html
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Srikanth Sundaresan
> <srikanth@gatech.edu> wrote:
> > I think eventually we will go with that. The only thing I don't like
> > about that is it's hard to remember whose is which. :)
> >
> >
> > On 04/26/2011 05:18 PM, Poole, Brian wrote:
> >> We can add auto-device naming if we decide on the convention to use. I
> had the MAC address (based on eth0) one mocked up before. Shall we just go
> with that? <whatever-the-prefix-was><full-mac-address-minus-the-colons> ?
> >>
> >> Brian
> >> ________________________________________
> >> From: bismark-devel-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net [
> bismark-devel-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net] on behalf of Srikanth
> Sundaresan [srikanth@gatech.edu]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 5:16 PM
> >> To: bismark-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
> >> Subject: [Bismark-devel] bismark-active
> >>
> >> bismark-mgmt seems to work. It needs some more testing, and there's also
> >> a manual component (naming the device), but it seems to be in good
> shape.
> >>
> >> To start testing bismark-active, we need the following scripts:
> >>
> >> bismark-measure-active
> >> bismark-tr
> >> bismark-rtr
> >> bismark-ping
> >> bismark-netperf
> >> bismark-netperf-thread
> >> bismark-dns
> >> bismark-ditg
> >> bismark-sp
> >>
> >> The binaries:
> >> shaperprobe
> >> ITGRecv
> >> ITGSend
> >> ITGDec
> >>
> >> packages:
> >> gnu-time
> >> bind-host
> >> curl(preferable, but not necessary)
> >>
> >> - Srikanth
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