How to change NIC alias?

[Maxim Veksler]

On 12/29/06, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 23:52 +0200, Maxim Veksler wrote:
> > On 12/28/06, Kenneth Tindle <ktindle at uky.edu> wrote:
> > > man nameif
> > >
> > > "name interface"
> > > /sbin/nameif
> > >
> >
> > Doesn't redhat use udev already?
> > If so it's quite simple (man udev)
>
> It's not that the device isn't detected, it's that the system is
> renaming it.  Often different kernels will scan the PCI bus differently
> and the names will change.  I hit this with two kernels with minor rev
> changes on a single Dell 2850.  Even the same kernel run on two slightly
> different hardware platforms will cause issues.   A Dell 2850 scans the
> motherboard first, then the PCI bus.  A Dell 1850 will scan the PCI bus
> first, THEN the motherboard.  Sheesh!  Consistency, please!
>
> The most reliable method to tie an interface name to a specific NIC is
> to either create an /etc/mactab file with the entries in it, e.g.:
>
>         eth0    aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
>         eth1    gg:hh:ii:jj:kk:ll
>
> or add the "MACADDR=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff" line to the ifcfg-ethX file
> involved.  Of the two, I prefer the second one ("MACADDR=").  One less
> thing to look at (if you have a problem with NIC naming, check the
> network config files instead of something in /etc).  But then, I'm a
> lazy cuss!  :-)
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Part of what udev does is deciding on the name for the mentioned device.
Please this thread as reference
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.region.israel/28055/focus=28069

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Maxim Veksler

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