Re: renamed interfaces or ifrename confuse other programs

[Jörg Schütter <joerg@schuetter.org>]

Hello Marc,

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:30:08 -0000
marc <gmane@auxbuss.com> wrote:

> Jörg Schütter said...
> > Hi
> > 
> > I'm using ifrename to give my network interfaces other names
> > (lan, wlan and testlan). Unfortunately this confuses a few
> > network-tools, eg iptraff and netmon-applet.
> > What would be the right way to solve the problems?
> > - open a bug report for every program (#335882)
> > - open a bug report against ifrename for adding informations
> >   regarding this problems
> > - let all interface names start with eth_ in hope the
> >   applications will be able to use this interfaces again (not
> >   tested)
> > - ...
> 
> I found similar problems with ifrename, so decided to jump to using udev 
> rules. Here's an outline of the process.
[process]

I don't know if I got it right, but I tried it this way:
- disable ifrename by prepending every line in /etc/iftab w/ #
- add a line which starts w/ 
  KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}="
  followed by MAC address and new name for each nic to
  /etc/udev/rules.d/010_local.rules
- run udevstart
- reboot

But I think I had an error in the config (or soewhere else) since
after that no network interface was available.


Jörg

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