Hello Marc,
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:01:43 -0000
marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jörg Schütter said...
> > Hello Marc,
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:30:08 -0000
> > marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Jörg Schütter said...
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I'm using ifrename to give my network interfaces other names
> > > > (lan, wlan and testlan). Unfortunately this confuses a few
> > > > network-tools, eg iptraff and netmon-applet.
> > > > What would be the right way to solve the problems?
> > > > - open a bug report for every program (#335882)
> > > > - open a bug report against ifrename for adding informations
> > > > regarding this problems
> > > > - let all interface names start with eth_ in hope the
> > > > applications will be able to use this interfaces again (not
> > > > tested)
> > > > - ...
> > >
> > > I found similar problems with ifrename, so decided to jump to using udev
> > > rules. Here's an outline of the process.
> > [process]
> >
> > I don't know if I got it right, but I tried it this way:
> > - disable ifrename by prepending every line in /etc/iftab w/ #
> > - add a line which starts w/
> > KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}="
> > followed by MAC address and new name for each nic to
> > /etc/udev/rules.d/010_local.rules
> > - run udevstart
> > - reboot
> >
> > But I think I had an error in the config (or soewhere else) since
> > after that no network interface was available.
>
> Ensure that the MAC address is correct - and all lower-case. This should
> help to confirm the device info and address
>
> # udevinfo -a -p /sys/class/net/eth0/
> looking at class device '/sys/class/net/eth0':
> --> SYSFS{address}="00:52:8b:d5:04:48"
>
> eth0 will be whatever you change it to once udev has taken it.
After switching to lowercase MACs it worked as expected. I like
the udev-renaming better than ifrename.
After prepending eth_ to the interface names iptraf and
netmon-applet were able to read the interface. Thank's for your
help.
Jörg
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