On Monday 06 November 2006 18:34, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > Am Montag, 6. November 2006 15:09 schrieb Timothy A. Holmes:
> > As the machine built, the realtech is eth0 and the intel is eth1 > > I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort can use the > > higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite sure where to look > > even to begin this process. > > "nameif" does this. > > # equery b nameif > [ Searching for file(s) nameif in *... ] > sys-apps/net-tools-1.60-r12 (/sbin/nameif) > > # nameif <interface> <macaddress> Or, if you're struggling with udev and you intend to run a slim installation you could also try setting it up in your /etc/conf.d/net: ====================================================== # OPTIONAL MODULES # INTERFACE RENAMING # There is no consistent device renaming scheme for Linux. # The preferred way of naming devices is via the kernel module directly or # by using udev (http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php) # If you are unable to write udev rules, then we do provide a way of renaming # the interface based on it's MAC address, but it is not optimal. # Here is how to rename an interface whose MAC address is 00:11:22:33:44:55 # to foo1 #rename_001122334455="foo1" # You can also do this based on current device name - although this is not # recommended. Here we rename eth1 to foo2. #rename_eth1="foo2" ====================================================== HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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