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kumar
kumar

Reputation: 2580

specific interface name for an interface in linux

Is there a possibility that I can hardcode interface name(say eth1) to a specific interface in the linux driver code?

This is in a controlled environemnt only, so breaking from default linux way(dynamically assigning name) is ok.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 430

Answers (2)

MarkR
MarkR

Reputation: 63596

You can rename network devices which are not up using the "ifconfig" command or the ioctl it uses. I strongly recommend that you don't :)

Upvotes: 0

Carl Smotricz
Carl Smotricz

Reputation: 67800

You may not need to do that; you could instead just fiddle with the dynamic assignment mechanism. udev has configuration files that control how names are assigned to devices, and if I remember it will also allow you to create links with handy names for given device names... so you can probably achieve your effect by re-configuring rather than re-coding.

Check out the man page and docs for udev.

Upvotes: 1

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