iftab is not working for me

[Ambrogio]

Il giorno mar, 27/06/2006 alle 22.17 +1000, Ben Stringer ha scritto:
> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:37 +0200, Ambrogio wrote:

> Perhaps the order of the interface discovery, and the use of ifrename in
> this way is leading to the inversion.
iftab changed... it do not work

Now iftab is:
lan0    mac     00:16:36:20:ce:52
wir0    mac     00:16:ce:1b:14:68

but 
ifconfig lan0 return to me the message
lan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Maybe I do not understand the behavior of iftab

Bye
 Ambrogio