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The network isn't very virtual under Linux

Posted Sep 4, 2008 20:21 UTC (Thu) by ebiederm (subscriber, #35028)
In reply to: The network isn't very virtual under Linux by renox
Parent article: Sysfs and namespaces

ip link set eth0.tag name something_fixed

Hard coding your interface names in general is a bad idea
but linux can very much rename network interfaces allowing
you to give them a logical name.

Eric

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