Re: Using a switch fabric to emulate multiple NICs

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:22:07 +0200
Peter Stuge <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 10:25:02AM +0100, Alex Zeffertt wrote:
> > > How about just using user-space tools to rename the interface? 
> > 
> > I thought about that.  My device driver could register eth0.  Then
> > I could use iproute2 to rename eth0, and all the vlan devices
> > eth0.10, eth0.11,..., eth0.19:
> 
> I suggest using udev instead, just add xx-ifnames.rules (where xx is
> a two-digit number) to /etc/udev/rules.d (at least on Gentoo) with:

I've just looked this up on http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html
and it appears this needs a 2.6 kernel to work.  Unfortunately my embedded environment is only
2.4.25 and I don't think I can justify the switch.

Thanks for the info though.

Alex