Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754186Ab0GIH10 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2010 03:27:26 -0400 Received: from mx01.bfk.de ([193.227.124.2]:47107 "EHLO mx01.bfk.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752690Ab0GIH1Z convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2010 03:27:25 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 526 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:27:24 EDT To: "Loke\, Chetan" Cc: "Matt Domsch" , "Michael Di Domenico" , , Subject: Re: nic enumeration References: <20100708012120.GB11419@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> From: Florian Weimer Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:18:25 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Chetan Loke's message of "Thu\, 8 Jul 2010 16\:36\:18 -0400") Message-ID: <82tyo9i0n2.fsf@mid.bfk.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 900 Lines: 23 * Chetan Loke: >> 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? "udev-trigger" or "udevadm trigger" works for renaming network interfaces. The kernel has some restrictions on renaming interfaces which are in use, so this might not work in your case. -- Florian Weimer BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstra?e 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- 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/