How to change NIC alias? 2006-12-28 - By Maxim Veksler
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On 12/29/06, Rick Stevens <rstevens@(protected)> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 23:52 +0200, Maxim Veksler wrote:
> > On 12/28/06, Kenneth Tindle <ktindle@(protected)> wrote:
> > > man nameif
> > >
> > > "name interface"
> > > /sbin/nameif
> > >
> >
> > Doesn't redhat use udev already?
> > If so it's quite simple (man udev)
>
> It's not that the device isn't detected, it's that the system is
> renaming it. Often different kernels will scan the PCI bus differently
> and the names will change. I hit this with two kernels with minor rev
> changes on a single Dell 2850. Even the same kernel run on two slightly
> different hardware platforms will cause issues. A Dell 2850 scans the
> motherboard first, then the PCI bus. A Dell 1850 will scan the PCI bus
> first, THEN the motherboard. Sheesh! Consistency, please!
>
> The most reliable method to tie an interface name to a specific NIC is
> to either create an /etc/mactab file with the entries in it, e.g.:
>
> eth0 aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
> eth1 gg:hh:ii:jj:kk:ll
>
> or add the "MACADDR=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff" line to the ifcfg-ethX file
> involved. Of the two, I prefer the second one ("MACADDR="). One less
> thing to look at (if you have a problem with NIC naming, check the
> network config files instead of something in /etc). But then, I'm a
> lazy cuss! :-)
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> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@(protected) -
> - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com -
> - -
> - I haven't lost my mind. It's backed up on tape somewhere, but -
> - probably not recoverable. -
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Part of what udev does is deciding on the name for the mentioned device.
Please this thread as reference
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.region.israel/28055/focus=28069
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Cheers,
Maxim Veksler
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