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Bug 139532 - automatically rename your NICs at boottime
Summary: automatically rename your NICs at boottime
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] baselayout (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2006-07-07 02:55 UTC by Sascha Teske
Modified: 2006-07-07 14:57 UTC (History)
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Description Sascha Teske 2006-07-07 02:55:03 UTC
When i have my usb-nic connected, my internet breaks, because it is counted as the second interface. this really gets on my nerves, since the stupid naming scheme of linux is an ongoing problem - for me at least - since the very dawn. there are some workarounds, of which i am proposing one here:

---------snip---------/etc/init.d/bootmisc.patch---------snap---------
28a29,34
>       if [[ -e /etc/mactab ]] ; then
>               ebegin "Configuring NIC interface names"
>               /sbin/nameif -c /etc/mactab
>               eend 0
>       fi
> 
---------snip---------/etc/init.d/bootmisc.patch---------snap---------

p.s. works fine for me
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2006-07-07 14:57:55 UTC
baselayout-1.12.x already has support for this via the 'rename' net module