[oclug] network issue with Debian Woody

[Christian Mautner]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:00:13PM -0400, Dennis Gardner wrote:
[...]
> Why did the realtek card take over eth0?  I still want the IBM card to 
> have eth0.  I don't know how to do that.  Physically swapping the two 
> cards in their PCI slots did not change the ethX assignments.
[...]

man nameif
 
NAME
       nameif - name network interfaces based on MAC addresses
 
SYNOPSIS
       nameif [-c configfile] [-s]
       nameif [-c configfile] [-s] {interface macaddress}
 
DESCRIPTION
       nameif renames network interfaces based on mac addresses. When
       no arguments are given /etc/mactab is read.  Each line of it
       contains an interface name and a Ethernet MAC address. Comments
       are allowed start- ing with #.  Otherwise the interfaces
       specified on the command line are processed.  nameif looks for
       the interface with the given MAC address and renames it to the
       name given.
 

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