Re: Alias names for network devices?

[Herbert Xu]

Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> does anybody have an idea how to map a static device name to a network device
> with dynamic appearance (e.g. ppp) ?

Yes, you can rename interfaces easily.

For ppp the best solution is to patch pppd to do it.
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