Bug 99294

Summary:	nameif doesn't allow one to assign names with MAC address
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg>
Component:	net-tools	Assignee:	Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Yusuf Goolamabbas 2003-07-17 04:36:39 UTC

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Description of problem:
Hi, I am trying to hardwire my ethernet interfaces names with the use of nameif,
however when I create the appropiate /etc/mactab file for a machine containing 3
Intel EEpro cards
I get the following message

Cannot change name of eth2 to eth0: File Exists

I suspect it may be due to naming conflicts, I think this is better
described here

http://pcxperience.org/nameif/


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create /etc/mactab
2. Introduce nameif in the networking script
   I used the technique described in Randy Dunlap's mini-howto

 
http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/network-interface-names.txt

Randy's changes were done on a Mandrake 9.0 installation

Actual Results:  Interface names not wired according to mac address

Additional info:

Possible bug fix described here


http://pcxperience.org/nameif/

Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2003-08-19 12:30:21 UTC

Fixed in latest initscripts. Now you can use any kind of interface name (e.h.
ifcfg-foobar).

That should help.

Read ya, Phil

Comment 2 Yusuf Goolamabbas 2003-08-25 07:48:55 UTC

Phil, Any chance that is going to be queued for an errata release