Re: network devices and passing options to kernel

Lauri Tischler (lauri.tischler@efore.fi)
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:29:47 +0300

David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> lauri.tischler@efore.fi said:
> > Yes, by using 'ip' from package 'iproute2', but the name of interface
> > depends on three things, loading order of drivers, pcidevice BIOS
> > detection and probing method of driver, you have no control over the
> > last two. --
>
> The name that the kernel initially assigns to the interface is fairly random.
> However, you can easily write a program which scans all the available
> interfaces just after booting, and renames them all to whatever you want.

Yes, but still you have no idea which interface belongs to which card,
so just renaming them, without knowledge of which slot contains which ethx,
is useless.

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