eth1 getting moved to eth0
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Sep 17 19:27:51 UTC 2004
Michal Jaegermann (michal at harddata.com) said:
> Another possibility is to use 'nameif' and your own names for
> network interfaces instead of eth0 and eth1. See 'man nameif'
> for details. The catch is that you cannot rename interfaces
> after they were brought up, so you have drop in your own startup
> script which runs early enough (it would be nice if a support for
> that was already present) and I have no idea how various 'sysconfig'
> tools will react on "strange" names. But you have an editor.
Actually, if you do:
alias frobozz e100
and have:
DEVICE=frobozz
in the ifcfg file, the standard scripts will rename it to whatever
you like.
Bill
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