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Re: ifrename



Johannes Berg escribe:
> 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

If I rename an interface to `wlan0' I get the same error even if this
isn't a kernel name.

Cordially, Ismael
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