On Wed, 2017-03-01 at 11:22 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 20:07:37 +0000, Zaboj Campula wrote:
> > Well it is impossible to draw a simple tree showing the configuration
> > exactly with all details. May be it is too ambitious to draw a tree
> > at all.
>
> I tried that and failed. I didn't want to have something that would
> work only "somehow" as that would create confusion instead of helping.
OK, I give up. My patch was naive and I deleted it.
Nevertheless I still think it would be useful to show network
interfaces dependencies in a pure text format.
> Consider the very simple case of an interface with two vlan interfaces
> and both of them in a bridge.
>
> vlan0
> / \
> eth0 br0
> \ /
> vlan1
>
> You can't represent this in a tree view. And this is just a very simple
> example, in reality it tends to be much more complex.
Perhaps something like that:
eth0
vlan0
br0
vlan1
br0
