[PATCH] renaming interfaces with ifconfig

Tobias Diedrich ranma at tdiedrich.de
Fri Dec 2 13:57:12 UTC 2005


Tobias Diedrich wrote:

> while I've seen that busybox at least in SVN supports nameif, the
> following (slightly hacky) patch to ifconfig would provide the basic
> interface renaming functionality with less code.
> Also, AFAICS nameif only works for interfaces with a MAC address,
> but in my case I'm more interested in renaming tun-Devices to assign
> static names to my OpenVPN tunnels.

Has anyone looked at this patch yet?

Thanks in advance,

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