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

[Frank W. <Fra...@ct...>]

On Wednesday 21 June 2006 21:55, Serge Leschinsky wrote:
> 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"
>

Thanks Serge
 this could be what I have been looking for, but it is not easy to use in DL 
(at least not with an /etc/mactab file): nameif needs to be run when the nic 
modules are loaded, but the interfaces are still down... if I insert a call 
to nameif in the /etc/init.d/network script after the modprobe, the name of 
the device being configured changes in the middle of the script. 

In order to use this, I'd have to introduce a new param into the nic-config 
file (eg HWADDR) and then make a single 'command-line' call  to nameif after 
the module has been loaded.

Thanks,

Frank