Re: [OT] Binding A Second NIC to A Device

[Jacob Coby <jcoby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Mueller wrote:
> PS, just saw on another mailing list about a tool called nameif.  Check it
> out.
Hmm.  I just looked at the source for ifup, and it calls nameif:

if [ -n "${HWADDR}" ]; then
    FOUNDMACADDR=`LC_ALL= LANG= ip -o link show ${REALDEVICE} | \
        sed 's/.*link\/ether \([[:alnum:]:]*\).*/\1/'`
    if [ "${FOUNDMACADDR}" != "${HWADDR}" ]; then
        /sbin/nameif "${REALDEVICE}" "${HWADDR}" || {
           echo $"Device ${DEVICE} has different MAC address than 
expected, ignoring."
           exit 1
        }
    fi
fi

Looks like the HWADDR directive will work for me if I reboot the 
machine.  Thanks Peter, and secroft@xxxxxxxxxx!
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-Jacob