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Re: [SLE] A few questions
  • From: Doug B <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 19:27:25 -0500
  • Message-id: <200408021927.25531.suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 02 August 2004 12:43 am, Chadley Wilson wrote:
>
> The the naming of ifcfg-eth-<macaddres>
> I have read the reasoning behind the decision to name the devices
> this way and agree it makes sense, but my question is if I created my
> own ifcfg-eth0 would it also work. I don't want to change the default
> I am just curious, and don't want to break anything!
>

I simply renamed ifcfg-eth-<macaddres> to ifcfg-eth0. Works fine for
me.

Doug

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