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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Stevie O <stevie@qrpff.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Renaming internal names of network interfaces
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 01:45:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020408084515.GQ961@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020407013139.00acf4d0@whisper.qrpff.net>

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:42:08AM -0500, Stevie O wrote:
> I recall some discussions of MAC address changing, etc., and some of the
messages referred to a way of changing the name Linux (and thus anything
using SIOGETIF or whatever) uses to refer to an interface. I can't remember
any specifics, so I can't find anything in archives :( Could someone please
point me in the right direction?     
> 

Check out bin/ip from the iproute package (in debian at least) specifically
"ip link name" "ip link help" should help.

Mike

      reply	other threads:[~2002-04-08  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-07  6:42 Renaming internal names of network interfaces Stevie O
2002-04-08  8:45 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]

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