Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:28:19 -0500 | From | Bill Nottingham <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] All my Pcmcia cards are 'eth0' |
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Jean Tourrilhes (jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com) said: > One of the main problem is that they are all assigned 'eth0', > and therefore all configured with the same IP address. This is really > pathetic. > > The usual answer is : you should use 'nameif' : > http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/network-interface-names.txt > Well, of course, nobody ever bothered to try it, so it doesn't > work. No comments.
Well, no offense, but I'd think comments are necessary about no one bothering to try it and it not working. I've had an orinoco_cs device 'bob' using nameif for a while.
There are some situations where you have to jump through hoops because it can't atomically swap two device names (i.e., eth0 <-> eth1, but the code itself seems to work ok in use here...
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