From: Hein Roehrig <hein@acm.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: network interface names ethX and renaming interfaces
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 00:05:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16C7a8-00014B-00@qaip3> (raw)
Hello *,
in Linux 2.2.20 I have a problem renaming the network interface dummy0
to eth0 and then starting a regular ethernet driver --- I would like
it to come up as eth1 but it comes up as eth0, messing up the dummy0
interface.
Reading the source, it appears that in init_ethernev(), ethernet
drivers claim device names according to the array ethdev_index and
shoot down any device name eth0 claimed by a non-ethernet driver.
Therefore it appears to me that SIOCSIFNAME should either disallow
renaming to ethX or it should adjust ethdev_index.
Thanks in advance for any comment/advice,
Hein
next reply other threads:[~2001-12-06 23:07 UTC|newest]
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2001-12-06 23:05 Hein Roehrig [this message]
2001-12-10 7:45 ` network interface names ethX and renaming interfaces Neale Banks
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