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From: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:08:35
Message-Id: 20061106155933.2bc7089a.hilse@web.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name by "Timothy A. Holmes"
1 Hi,
2
3 On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 09:09:40 -0500 "Timothy A. Holmes"
4 <tholmes@×××××××××.net> wrote:
5
6 > As the machine built, the realtech is eth0 and the intel is eth1
7 >
8 > I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort can use the
9 > higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite sure where to
10 > look even to begin this process.
11
12 You can give arbitrary names to those interfaces by configuring udev
13 appropriately:
14
15 e.g. /etc/udev/rules.d/10-my-own-rules:
16 ---snip
17 KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:12:34:fe:dc:ba", NAME="eth-lan"
18 KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:56:78:98:76:54", NAME="eth-sniff"
19 ---snip
20
21 -hwh
22 --
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