From: Sven Koch <haegar@sdinet.de>
To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
Cc: Mauricio Culibrk <mauricio@infohit.si>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Device (LAN Cards) Naming
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 01:03:59 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0112010101090.31465-100000@space.comunit.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011130150536.E504@mikef-linux.matchmail.com>
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:57:28PM +0100, Sven Koch wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Mauricio Culibrk wrote:
> >
> > > Is it possible to define a name for each interface instead of having
> > > eth0, eth1 etc?
> >
> > ip link set eth0 down
> > ip link set eth0 name buggy
> > ip link set buggy up
> Does the new name work with ifconfig?
Yes, it does.
And with firewalling, shaping, etc - with everything that uses ethX.
Only programs that think they are smarter and use hardcoded
interface-names/schemes/lists are obviously broken.
c'ya
sven
--
The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it.
(John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-01 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-30 19:35 Mauricio Culibrk
2001-11-30 19:57 ` Sven Koch
2001-11-30 23:05 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-12-01 0:03 ` Sven Koch [this message]
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