Hi,
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 09:09:40 -0500 "Timothy A. Holmes"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As the machine built, the realtech is eth0 and the intel is eth1
>
> I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort can use the
> higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite sure where to
> look even to begin this process.
You can give arbitrary names to those interfaces by configuring udev
appropriately:
e.g. /etc/udev/rules.d/10-my-own-rules:
---snip
KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:12:34:fe:dc:ba", NAME="eth-lan"
KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:56:78:98:76:54", NAME="eth-sniff"
---snip
-hwh
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