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Re: ifrename



On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 23:25 +0100, Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot wrote:

> /etc/init.d/ifrename start
> Warning: Interface name is `eth0' at line 5, can't be mapped reliably.
> 
> Most of the time ifrename works in spite of the message, but some times
> it does not work (the wireless iface isn't renamed to eth0 and sungem is
> the driver associated with eth0).
> 
> Any ideas why this can be happening?

I think this is because you're not supposed to rename to ethX since that
is a kernel name. See, let's say ifrename is run when you already have
eth1 and eth0 but in the wrong order...

johannes

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