RE: nic enumeration

Charlie Brady
2010-07-08T21:31:51Z

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Loke, Chetan wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-
> > owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Matt Domsch
> > Sent: July 07, 2010 9:21 PM
> >
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/356900/
> >
> > 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?

Yes, you can rename interfaces using the 'ip' command.

ip link set oldname name newname