Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757757Ab0GHVbv (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2010 17:31:51 -0400 Received: from 206-248-169-175.dsl.ncf.ca ([206.248.169.175]:34021 "HELO charlieb.ott.istop.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755156Ab0GHVbu (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2010 17:31:50 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 400 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:31:50 EDT Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 17:24:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Charlie Brady X-X-Sender: charlieb@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com To: "Loke, Chetan" cc: Matt Domsch , Michael Di Domenico , linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: nic enumeration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20100708012120.GB11419@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 852 Lines: 24 On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Loke, Chetan wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel- > > owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Matt Domsch > > Sent: July 07, 2010 9:21 PM > > > > http://lwn.net/Articles/356900/ > > > > And on a system where you can use udev rules, the > > 70-persistent-net.rules file can be used to make them constant, by > > using the MAC address to force the names to be what you want. > > Ok, but can we achieve the renaming w/o a reboot? Yes, you can rename interfaces using the 'ip' command. ip link set oldname name newname -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/