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

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

 Frank,

Thursday, June 22, 2006, 5:28:54 AM, 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. 
 You can do the following any time( rename eth2 (00:0C:29:40:65:27) to
 eth10 with saving all NIC settings )
 ifconfig eth2 down
 nameif eth10 00:0C:29:40:65:27
 ifconfig eth10 up

> 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.
Another "MAC" option ?
But may be just do it in another way:
Assign necessary MAC address to the interface by using "MAC" option of
nic configuration file.


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