Why does new Dapper udev build conflict with ifrename?

[John L Fjellstad]

"Carlos Picazzo" <ojaiguy at gmail.com> writes:

> Sorry for the delayed response, Dennis but I was wondering how you can tell
> udev about what interfaces to map to what name?  With ifrename, it was /etc/
> iftab -- is it something similar?
>
> Thank you very much,

Do /sbin/ifconfig, this should give you your mac address.
For instance, at my place
-- liem at minerva:/etc$ /sbin/ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:56411 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:56411 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:7135474 (6.8 MiB)  TX bytes:7135474 (6.8 MiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:02:05:C2:BC
          inet addr:192.168.10.16  Bcast:192.168.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::213:2ff:fe05:c2bc/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:849175 errors:137 dropped:2805 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:509003 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:394065129 (375.8 MiB)  TX bytes:384014562 (366.2 MiB)
          Interrupt:177 Base address:0x2000 Memory:fe1ff000-fe1fffff

The mac address is the HWaddr

In /etc/iftab, set your mac address and new name, for instance, for me:

liem at minerva:/etc$ cat iftab
# This file assigns persistent names to network interfaces.
# See iftab(5) for syntax.

# Replaced during upgrade
#wlan0 mac 00:13:02:05:C2:BC
wlan0 mac 00:13:02:05:c2:bc arp 1

So, my wireless connection always get the name wlan0 (the first wlan0
line is mine, I think when I upgraded, "they' changed it to the second
line).

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John L. Fjellstad
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