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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: "Loke\, Chetan" <Chetan.Loke@netscout.com>
Cc: "Matt Domsch" <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
	"Michael Di Domenico" <mdidomenico4@gmail.com>,
	<linux-net@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: nic enumeration
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:18:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <82tyo9i0n2.fsf@mid.bfk.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D3F292ADF945FB49B35E96C94C2061B90C317EA2@nsmail.netscout.com> (Chetan Loke's message of "Thu\, 8 Jul 2010 16\:36\:18 -0400")

* Chetan Loke:

>> And on a system where you can use udev rules, the
>> 70-persistent-net.rules file can be used to make them constant, by
>> using the MAC address to force the names to be what you want.
>> 
>
> Ok, but can we achieve the renaming w/o a reboot? 

"udev-trigger" or "udevadm trigger" works for renaming network
interfaces.  The kernel has some restrictions on renaming interfaces
which are in use, so this might not work in your case.

-- 
Florian Weimer                <fweimer@bfk.de>
BFK edv-consulting GmbH       http://www.bfk.de/
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-09  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-07 22:25 nic enumeration Michael Di Domenico
2010-07-07 22:39 ` Brian Kroth
2010-07-07 23:15 ` Steve Fink
2010-07-08  1:21 ` Matt Domsch
2010-07-08 20:36   ` Loke, Chetan
2010-07-08 20:47     ` Andrew Fong
2010-07-08 21:27       ` Kay Sievers
2010-07-08 22:07         ` Loke, Chetan
2010-07-08 21:24     ` Charlie Brady
2010-07-09  7:18     ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2010-07-09  7:57       ` Kay Sievers
2010-07-09  8:13         ` Florian Weimer
2010-07-09 16:27       ` Loke, Chetan
2010-07-09 17:10         ` Steve Fink
2010-07-09 18:23           ` Loke, Chetan
2010-07-09 21:26             ` Steve Fink
2010-07-12 16:56               ` Loke, Chetan
2010-07-12 18:27                 ` Steve Fink
2010-07-09 17:15         ` Matt Domsch
2010-07-09 18:55           ` Loke, Chetan

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