[TriLUG] ipmasq horrors on switchover to cable modem

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 13:15, Brian Weaver wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 11:00, Jon Carnes wrote:
> > /etc/modules.conf
> >    alias eth0 3c59x
> >    alias eth1 <whatever your second card is>
> 
> Any suggestions on what to do if both the cards use the same driver?
> i.e. identical cards, pci in this case.

There's also a utility called "nameif" that allows you to change the
name of a network interface, based on its MAC address.  See the man page
for "nameif" -- you can setup an /etc/mactab that defines which names
(eth0,eth1, etc) go with which MAC addresses.  Also, your distribution
may call nameif automatically if you set up certain parameters in your
network configuration.  For example, you can put the MAC address in a
certain point in RHL 8's network configuration, and it will try to run
nameif to rename the interface.  It doesn't work quite right -- search
Red Hat's bugzilla for "nameif" to see the problems.

--Jeremy