Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Binding nics to interfaces

[Serge L. <fi...@in...>]

Frank,

Tuesday, June 20, 2006, 11:57:41 PM, you wrote:

> is there a way to bind a particular nic to a particular interface in DL, i.e.
> a way to map that says eth0 has MAC address xxxx etc?
Yes.

Program name is "nameif"

man nameif :

NAME
       nameif - name network interfaces based on MAC addresses

SYNOPSIS
       nameif [-c configfile] [-s]
       nameif [-c configfile] [-s] {interface macaddress}

DESCRIPTION
       nameif  renames  network  interfaces  based on mac addresses. When no arguments are given /etc/mactab is read. Each
       line  of it contains an interface name and a Ethernet MAC address. Comments are allowed starting with #.  Otherwise
       the  interfaces  specified  on  the  command line are processed.  nameif looks for the interface with the given MAC
       address and renames it to the name given.

       When the -s argument is given all error messages go to the syslog.

       When the -c argument is given with a file name that file is read instead of /etc/mactab.

NOTES
       nameif should be run before the interface is up, otherwise it'll fail.

FILES
       /etc/mactab

BUGS
       Only works for Ethernet currently.

net-tools                                               18 Oct 2000                                              NAMEIF(8)

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Best regards,
 Serge                            mailto:fi...@in...