On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:50:25PM +0200, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > Safer way is to use nameif which maps MAC (hardware, Ethernet) address > to interface name. "man nameif" will give you all answers. > > Note: I don't know if nameif exists in RH Linux but if the RedHat > didn't packaged such basic Linux tools it is shame on them. Mine didn't. (Of course, when I installed Redhat it was the 6.0 CD, it seems that Redhat 7.3 and above should have it, as should Fedora.) Just in case: ftp://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.3/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/net-tools-1.60-4.i386.rpm > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html