From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: Does Linux Redhat 9 reassign eth numbering? Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 01:40:42 -0400 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040707054042.GA23915@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <1089135149.31771.15.camel@canes.sc.eso.org> <20040706215025.GA6677@rns-nis.co.yu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040706215025.GA6677@rns-nis.co.yu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:50:25PM +0200, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > Safer way is to use nameif which maps MAC (hardware, Ethernet) address > to interface name. "man nameif" will give you all answers. > > Note: I don't know if nameif exists in RH Linux but if the RedHat > didn't packaged such basic Linux tools it is shame on them. Mine didn't. (Of course, when I installed Redhat it was the 6.0 CD, it seems that Redhat 7.3 and above should have it, as should Fedora.) Just in case: ftp://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.3/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/net-tools-1.60-4.i386.rpm > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.