Since people pointed to distribution specific files, let's
consolidate the knowledge:
* Renaming interfaces used to be done by the nameif(8) command.
* Although this command is still carried by modern distributions
(e.g: my Fedora-8 and Fedora-9) its usage was deprecated in favor
of the modern ip(8) command.
* To rename an interface:
/sbin/ip link set <some_mac_addr> name <wanted_name>
As is common in Unix/Linux systems, there are scripts that run these
commands for us (e.g: during boot), and these scripts read their
configuration information from other files.
The relevant script in Fedora/Centos/Red Hat is
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth
and it calls the shell function rename_device defined
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions.
Ehud Karni correctly pointed that these scripts read from:
> On Fedora/Centos the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth<N>
> can have the line: HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (mac address)
> to assign the eth<N> to specific network card.
As pointed by others, Debian has different scripts which read
the configuration in interfaces(5).
Yet, other distributions have their own scripts/configs. However
if we search for the nameif(8) or ip(8) commands in the right
directories (under /etc of course) we would find the correct
scripts to configure and from there the config files they use.
And we haven't talked about NetworkManager yet...
Cheers,
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