Loop eth1-eth9999 and be silent about it

ethtmp (text/plain), 481 bytes, created by Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) on 2013-01-23 10:28:32 UTC

#!/sbin/runscript

# Run this before 70-persistent-net.rules to allow swapping to eth*
#
# Then you can use rules like:
#
# SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{address}=="bc:ae:c5:59:5a:85", NAME="eth0"
# SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{address}=="bc:ae:c5:59:5a:fd", NAME="eth1"

description="Renames ethX to ethXtmp to avoid udev rename conflicts"

depend() {
	before dev
}

start() {
	for i in {1..9999}; do
		ip link set dev eth${i} name eth${i}tmp 2>/dev/null
	done
}