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From: "Timothy A. Holmes" <tholmes@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:27:54
Message-Id: 17CD9CE4C0FA574A8B29EF02D49B385D2A954E@srvexch-01.mcaschool.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name by Novensiles divi Flamen
1 > On Monday 06 November 2006 21:59, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
2 >
3 > > > I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort
4 > can use the
5 > > > higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite
6 > sure where to
7 > > > look even to begin this process.
8 > >
9 > > You can give arbitrary names to those interfaces by configuring udev
10 > > appropriately:
11 > >
12 > > e.g. /etc/udev/rules.d/10-my-own-rules:
13 > > ---snip
14 > > KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:12:34:fe:dc:ba", NAME="eth-lan"
15 > > KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:56:78:98:76:54",
16 > NAME="eth-sniff"
17 > > ---snip
18 >
19 > You could also just tell Snort to use eth1. But this is useful info.
20 >
21 > - Noven
22 > --
23 > >-- Novensiles divi Flamen --<
24 > >---- Miles Militis Fons ----<
25 >
26 >
27
28 Ive been trying to do that - I can do it from command line, but not from
29 init script which is why im trying to change the names around
30
31 Timothy A. Holmes
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Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com>