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network: update specification for bridge names

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Reviewed-by: Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>
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@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ page contains the complete format description. All {pve} tools try hard to keep
direct user modifications, but using the GUI is still preferable, because it
protects you from errors.
A 'vmbr' interface is needed to connect guests to the underlying physical
network. They are a Linux bridge which can be thought of as a virtual switch
to which the guests and physical interfaces are connected to. This section
provides some examples on how the network can be set up to accomodate different
use cases like redundancy with a xref:sysadmin_network_bond['bond'],
A Linux bridge interface (commonly called 'vmbrX') is needed to connect guests
to the underlying physical network. It can be thought of as a virtual switch
which the guests and physical interfaces are connected to. This section provides
some examples on how the network can be set up to accomodate different use cases
like redundancy with a xref:sysadmin_network_bond['bond'],
xref:sysadmin_network_vlan['vlans'] or
xref:sysadmin_network_routed['routed'] and
xref:sysadmin_network_masquerading['NAT'] setups.
@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ We currently use the following naming conventions for device names:
scheme is used for {pve} hosts which were installed before the 5.0
release. When upgrading to 5.0, the names are kept as-is.
* Bridge names: `vmbr[N]`, where 0 ≤ N ≤ 4094 (`vmbr0` - `vmbr4094`)
* Bridge names: Commonly `vmbr[N]`, where 0 ≤ N ≤ 4094 (`vmbr0` - `vmbr4094`),
but you can use any alphanumeric string that starts with a character and is at
most 10 characters long.
* Bonds: `bond[N]`, where 0 ≤ N (`bond0`, `bond1`, ...)