* Gregory Edigarov <[email protected]> [2010-04-19 14:56]: > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:34:12 -0400 > Simon Perreault <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2010-04-19 08:31, Gregory Edigarov wrote: > > > sometimes it is better and necessary to have interfaces named under > > > one standartized name like fether0... fetherN for example > > > > Why? And how can groups not accomplish that? > > > > Simon > suppose you need to configure some interfaces of different makes: > em0, bge0, rl0, ath0 > to have name like: > ether0, ether1, ether2, ether3... > so you may plug in another card instead of ether2 for example. > without interface renaming you will end up rewriting the whole seciton > of your interface configuration script, while with it - you will only > have to change one line: > ifconfig bge0 name ether0
your what? mv hostname.em2 hostname.em3 is not black magic. -- Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting
