On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, kevin lyda wrote:
> of the file name, not the device. why not just change the file name?
ah... obvious yes, and that is what i did initially (have a look in
network-scripts/ on our firewall)
however however however... yes: fongdongling redhat init scripts
some scripts use ifcfg-${DEVICE}, ie ifup, so renaming the ifcfg-*
scripts breaks that.
> ifcfg-eth0 chould just as easily be ifcfg-ETH0 or ifcfg-0. equally so,
> ifcfg-cifcb0 (or whatever) could just as easily be ifcfg-xcifcb0 or
> whatever.
if only...
> kevin
--paulj
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