On 2005-08-10T22:37-0500 Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 01:25:52PM +1000, Kai Hendry wrote: > > For some odd reason my network interfaces have swapped around. I thought > > the usual remedy was to use nameif but that doesn't seem to work. > ifrename is now run by hotplug to reorder/rename interfaces. Do you have an example how it works? frodo$ sudo ifrename eth2 00:0D:60:2E:A9:F5 Error: Can't open configuration file `/etc/iftab': No such file or directory Stuff that used to be in networking has to be now split out to /etc/iftab !? Nasty! And OMG. Do I really have to patch networking as detailed: vim /usr/share/doc/ifrename/HOTPLUG.txt.gz +227 !?!? > > I hate it how dhclient slows down my boot when there is no network > > plugged into my T30. I think there is a package to do that. Any > > recommendations? > ifplugd I wish dhclient could just detect there wasn't a cable in the damn port.
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