[plug] no eth0, but drivers load...

[Matt Kemner]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, quoth Daniel Pittman:

> (I don't actually know how to rename the NIC without a reboot any more.
>  Isn't that kind of sad?  It used to be ifrename or similar, but they
>  have gone away and I don't know how to trigger udev to reprocess the
>  rule and rename the device for me.)

  ifconfig eth2 down

  ip link set eth2 name eth0

  ifconfig eth0 up

I use this command in a custom /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ script on servers with
multiple DSL connections - set the interface name to $PPP_IPPARAM so
instead of ppp0, ppp1 etc I get "iinet", "westnet" etc

Makes firewall rules etc much easier

 - Matt