Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:03:59 -0400 From: Mikel King <mikel.king@olivent.com> To: benjamin thielsen <bthielsen@safarivideonetworks.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing network interface names Message-ID: <45DBB5D8-F8BB-43E0-8920-00A41AAE0EF6@olivent.com> In-Reply-To: <24450181-D401-401F-81B3-5EBFB9C737DF@safarivideonetworks.com> References: <24450181-D401-401F-81B3-5EBFB9C737DF@safarivideonetworks.com>
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On Sep 8, 2008, at 11:24 AM, benjamin thielsen wrote: > hi- > > i have a computer with 2 ethernet interfaces (a dell poweredge 2900) > on which the interface names are transposed logically versus > physically (e.g. the interface labelled "ethernet 1" is named "bce1" > and the interface labelled "ethernet 2" is labelled "bce0"). > > how can i change this, aside from using the ifconfig name argument? > > thanks > -ben > ____________________ Ben, The manpage for rc.conf includes the following example: It is also possible to rename interface by doing: ifconfig_ed0_name="net0" ifconfig_net0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffff0000" Obviously you can also do this manually w/ ifconfig, but I suspect hat you'd like this change to occurr everytime you restart. Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court Medford, NY 11763 http://www.olivent.com http://www.daemonnews.org http://www.bsdmag.org http://www.jafdip.com skype: mikel.king t: 631.627.3055 m: 646.554.3660 +------------------------------------------+ Do You know where your towel is? +------------------------------------------+
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