From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] All my Pcmcia cards are 'eth0'
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 03:28:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-106938548628446@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-106938471327975@msgid-missing>
Jean Tourrilhes (jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com) said:
> One of the main problem is that they are all assigned 'eth0',
> and therefore all configured with the same IP address. This is really
> pathetic.
>
> The usual answer is : you should use 'nameif' :
> http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/network-interface-names.txt
> Well, of course, nobody ever bothered to try it, so it doesn't
> work. No comments.
Well, no offense, but I'd think comments are necessary about no
one bothering to try it and it not working. I've had an orinoco_cs
device 'bob' using nameif for a while.
There are some situations where you have to jump through hoops
because it can't atomically swap two device names (i.e.,
eth0 <-> eth1, but the code itself seems to work ok in use here...
Bill
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-21 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-21 3:13 [PATCH] All my Pcmcia cards are 'eth0' Jean Tourrilhes
2003-11-21 3:28 ` Bill Nottingham [this message]
2003-11-21 3:40 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-11-21 17:22 ` Jean Tourrilhes
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