Bug#355260: gnome-nettool: Doesnt work with renamed interfaces

[Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)]

Package: gnome-nettool
Version: 1.4.1-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

I use nameif to rename my interfaces and get consistant names between sessions.

This is done this way in /etc/network/interfaces:

auto lan
iface lan inet static
    address 192.168.1.15
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    pre-up nameif lan 00:11:2F:C6:5A:38
    up route add default gw 192.168.1.1

Then the "lan" interface is seen by the system the normal way:			    
lan       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:2F:C6:5A:38
          inet addr:192.168.1.15  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          ...		    

If I start gnome-nettool, this interface appears in the lsit in the "Devices"
tab:

Network device:  Unknown interface (lan)


If I click [Configure], I get, after a while, a popup with:
The interface does not exist
Check that is is correctly typed and that
it is correcly supported by your system.

Regards

Jean-Luc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-k8-7
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages gnome-nettool depends on:
ii  dnsutils                    1:9.3.2-2    Clients provided with BIND
ii  finger                      0.17-9       user information lookup program
ii  iputils-ping [ping]         3:20020927-3 Tools to test the reachability of 
ii  libc6                       2.3.6-3      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.12.1-11    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.5.1-2    library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.8.6-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.8.13-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.10.4-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  net-tools                   1.60-17      The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii  traceroute                  1.4a12-20    traces the route taken by packets 

gnome-nettool recommends no packages.

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