Re: Renaming eth0 on SGI O2

["Giuseppe Sacco" <giuseppe@eppesuigoccas.homedns.org>]

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> Interfaces must have a device symlink (in /sys/class/net/$IFACE/, which
> some broken drivers lack) and unique MAC addresses.

Hi Marco,
this "device" link is missing for this driver. So probably this is a
kernel bug.

giuseppe@sgi:~$ ls -ld /sys/class/net/*{,/device}
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2007-05-17 08:22 /sys/class/net/eth0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2007-05-17 08:22 /sys/class/net/eth100
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-05-17 08:22 /sys/class/net/eth100/device ->
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2007-05-12 23:35 /sys/class/net/lo
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2007-05-12 15:10 /sys/class/net/ppp0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2007-05-12 21:35 /sys/class/net/sit0

Thanks,
Giuseppe