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Re: 2 NIC's, assigned in wrong order



On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:41:29PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> > Dec 28 19:11:31 ve6wvc nameif: cannot change name of eth1 to eth0: File exists
> 
> The `file' here is the network device `eth0' -- ``ifconfig -a'' will
> show both eth1 and eth0 are there, waiting to be upped.  This looks like
> a kernel limitation.

This is what Bernd Eckenfels says in <20031230030758.GA21839@lina.inka.de>,
in a Debian Bug #225256 thread:

| On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:56:09PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
| > BTW: Is nameif's unability to swap names of two existing devices a
| > kernel limitation, or another nameif's bug?
| 
| it is a missing feature in nameif, it will have to rename to a temporary
| name. Hmm.. possibly there are some patches floating around to fix that,
| send them to me if you see them .)

Just if anybody wanted to know.

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Jan Minar                    Chvostny Snovy krok. \/\ Whoopy Boo Year.

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