On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:33:51 +0100 (CET)
Henrik Nordstrom <hno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Subbu wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a network driver which can have driver name as ethX. everytime i
> > used to enter eth1 or eth2 manually as driver name to enable/start my n/w
> > driver.
> >
> > Is there any way that i could get the driver name at user lever other than
> > polling for it..??
>
> You could look for the known MAC address of your interface and deduce the
> ethX name from there...
Is this is what you want?
man nameif
DESCRIPTION
nameif renames network interfaces based on mac addresses. When no
arguments are given /etc/mactab is read. Each line of it contains an
interface name and a Ethernet MAC address. Comments are allowed start-
ing with #. Otherwise the interfaces specified on the command line
are processed. nameif looks for the interface with the given MAC
address and renames it to the name given.
-
: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
