On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:41:29PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > Dec 28 19:11:31 ve6wvc nameif: cannot change name of eth1 to eth0: File exists > > The `file' here is the network device `eth0' -- ``ifconfig -a'' will > show both eth1 and eth0 are there, waiting to be upped. This looks like > a kernel limitation.
This is what Bernd Eckenfels says in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, in a Debian Bug #225256 thread: | On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:56:09PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: | > BTW: Is nameif's unability to swap names of two existing devices a | > kernel limitation, or another nameif's bug? | | it is a missing feature in nameif, it will have to rename to a temporary | name. Hmm.. possibly there are some patches floating around to fix that, | send them to me if you see them .) Just if anybody wanted to know. -- Jan Minar Chvostny Snovy krok. \/\ Whoopy Boo Year.
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