Am Freitag, 7. Februar 2003 14:52 schrieb Alan Cox:
> On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 08:45, Oliver Kurth wrote:
> > the names depend on the order I plug them in. If I plug in my orinoco
> > first, it gets eth1, if I plug in the kaweth first, _it_ gets eth1, and
> > the orinoco would get eth2. But I want to know which sort of device I
> > have, so that I can configure them automatically using hotplug and
> > ifupdown (from Debian). Naturally, kaweth and orinoco need different
> > configurations. This cannot be achieved with changing the name when it
> > is already given.
>
> ethtool and mac addresses should be more than sufficient (actually the
> current Red Hat will bind names to mac addresses).
I tried actually doing this through the hotplugging system. I failed because
I had no idea how to discover which interface to rename. Any ideas?
Regards
Oliver N
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