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From: Novensiles divi Flamen <noven@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:25:09
Message-Id: 200611062216.00438.noven@sincorp.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name by Hans-Werner Hilse
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 can use the
4 > > higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite sure where to
5 > > look even to begin this process.
6 >
7 > You can give arbitrary names to those interfaces by configuring udev
8 > appropriately:
9 >
10 > e.g. /etc/udev/rules.d/10-my-own-rules:
11 > ---snip
12 > KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:12:34:fe:dc:ba", NAME="eth-lan"
13 > KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:56:78:98:76:54", NAME="eth-sniff"
14 > ---snip
15
16 You could also just tell Snort to use eth1. But this is useful info.
17
18 - Noven
19 --
20 >-- Novensiles divi Flamen --<
21 >---- Miles Militis Fons ----<

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