I updated the patch for the timos operating system.
The ifDescr is a comma delimited string that contains port number, ifName and ifAlias.
I'm setting IfDescr to Value 0 (port number) and ifAlias to Value 2. Nokia/ALU does not provide a CLI command to set any values for IfAlias.
It seems we should use ifName, then parse the alias from ifDescr. Better not to parse the name from ifdescr too, since we don't seem to need to.