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Linux in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition

by Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Aaron Weber
June 2003
Beginner to intermediate
944 pages
43h 1m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

nameif

Synopsis

                  nameif [options] [name 
                  macaddress]

System administration command. Assign an interface name to a network device specified by macaddress, the unique serial number that identifies a network card. If no name and macaddress are given, nameif will attempt to read addresses from the configuration file /etc/mactab. Each line of the configuration file should contain either a comment beginning with # or an interface name and MAC address.

Options

-c filename

Read interface names and MAC addresses from filename instead of /etc/mactab.

-s

Send any error messages to syslog.

File

/proc/ksyms

List of interface names and MAC addresses used to rename interfaces.

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ISBN: 0596004826