Steve Gear Schneider Technical Services writes:
> i am confused with the usage of 'eth0'. i thought that 'eth0' meant OSA-2
> and 'eth1' meant 'OSA-E giga'.
Post, Mark K writes:
> No, eth0 is simply the first Ethernet device found by the driver. If it
> finds any others, it simply names them eth1, eth2, eth3, and so on.
Note also that there's nothing magic about the name once the driver
has chosen it. In the same way that you can pretty much name devices
however you like in /dev, you can pretty much (re)name network
interfaces however you like:
# ip link set eth0 name mynewname
You wouldn't usually want to do this, though, since a bunch of
configuration stuff tends to assume things about device names in
the same way that some code assumed/assumes things about names of
devices in /dev (e.g. pseudo-terminal devices before the pts cleanup
and there used to be some slight layering violations in things like
dasd device names).
--Malcolm
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IBM EMEA Enterprise Server Group...
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