Re: network devices and passing options to kernel

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:44:38 +0100

lauri.tischler@efore.fi said:
> Yes, but still you have no idea which interface belongs to which
> card, so just renaming them, without knowledge of which slot contains
> which ethx, is useless.

Ah - I assumed you were going to do this based on MAC addresses.

i.e.

foreach interface; do
get mac address
lookup the desired interface name for this mac address
set name accordingly
done

You could also possibly do it by snooping on the interface to see which IP
addresses are on it, or trying DHCP. The point was that this isn't a kernel
problem.

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