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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

c'ya
sven

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