From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 03:28:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] All my Pcmcia cards are 'eth0' Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel