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From: Vincent Jardin <vjardin@wanadoo.fr>
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Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 15:47:34 +0200
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Subject: Howto rename an interface
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I would like to rename the network interfaces. More particularly, I would=
 like=20
to control the numbers in the name and to remove the constraints.

For example, what are the issues about renaming my 'vr0' interface to eth=
1-3=20
or DSL-WAN that does not have a ifunit within its name ?

I think about the following issues, what am I forgetting ?
  - update all the sockaddr_dl
  - many drivers, in fact all of them, log with %s%d, ifname, ifunit
  - (add a message on the routing socket)

Regards,
  Vincent