On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:58:06AM +0200, Ehud Karni wrote: > Can anyone explain to me why eth0 is better/before eth1 ?
Broken programs assume that the first (usually, only) eth interface is eth0? > If my knowledge is correct, you can always any name you want just > by putting the right alias in /etc/modules.conf[1] and having the > corresponding ifcfg-<name> in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/. To translate to vendor neutral speak, you can do it by using the approriate ioctl, which happens to be SIOCSIFNAME. You can also use the nameif(1) tool from the net-tools package. You can only change an interface's name to foo if a) the interface is down and b) no interface foo already exists. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
