[K12OSN] Swap eth0 and eth1

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Fri Sep 16 17:02:41 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 09:37, Shahms King wrote:
> |>For more details of the /etc/iftab file, "man iftab".
> |
> |
> | Does this apply to everything with a 2.6 kernel?  (I'm a little behind
> | the times...).
> 
> I'm not certain, but I believe so.  I don't have anything running a 2.4
> kernel to see if interface renaming was supported back then or not.
> There are some notes in the ifrename and iftab man pages about when they
> have to be run, etc.  My rule of thumb would be that it applies to any
> distribution that ships an "ifrename" binary ;-)

I poked around a little and don't see it on FC2 which would have
had the 2.6 kernel (or FC1/centos3 with 2.4).  It must have been
introduced in FC3 and included in centos4.

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  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com





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