Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:05:36 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Device (LAN Cards) Naming |
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:57:28PM +0100, Sven Koch wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Mauricio Culibrk wrote: > > > Is it possible to define a name for each interface instead of having > > eth0, eth1 etc? > > ip link set eth0 down > ip link set eth0 name buggy > ip link set buggy up >
Ohh, nice!
Though I've gotten used to ethX, I'm sure this can help make scripts a bit easier to read.
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