From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Sven Koch <haegar@sdinet.de>
Cc: Mauricio Culibrk <mauricio@infohit.si>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Device (LAN Cards) Naming
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:05:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011130150536.E504@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A57F0FE23B31C14E84E38657C03A44982BB3@Godzilla> <Pine.LNX.4.40.0111302055540.7425-100000@space.comunit.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0111302055540.7425-100000@space.comunit.de>
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
>
Ohh, nice!
Though I've gotten used to ethX, I'm sure this can help make scripts a bit
easier to read.
Does the new name work with ifconfig?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-30 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-30 19:35 Device (LAN Cards) Naming Mauricio Culibrk
2001-11-30 19:57 ` Sven Koch
2001-11-30 23:05 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2001-12-01 0:03 ` Sven Koch
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