Renaming internal names of network interfaces

Renaming internal names of network interfaces

[Stevie O]

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?

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By the way, I have 11 binary modules (among them, nvidia's) and my 2.5.7 kernel crashes sometimes. Would you help me debug that? Also, we should rewrite the kernel in C++, convert all 'goto' error handling to C++ Exception handling, localize/internationalize all kernel printk() calls. Half the kernel developers can do that, while the other half switch to a thread-based microkernel architecture. Oh, and it all needs to work nice and smoothly on my 386SX laptop with 4MB RAM, OK?


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Stevie-O

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Re: Renaming internal names of network interfaces

[Mike Fedyk]

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