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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:05:36 -0800
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Sven Koch <haegar@sdinet.de>
Cc: Mauricio Culibrk <mauricio@infohit.si>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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.

Does the new name work with ifconfig?
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