From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gh7KE-00049B-1x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:27:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA6GNuYo019480; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 16:23:56 GMT Received: from srvexch-01.mcaschool.local (mail.mcaschool.net [24.239.210.32]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA6GJ2bK009087 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 16:19:03 GMT X-Ninja-PIM: Scanned by Ninja X-Ninja-AttachmentFiltering: (no action) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:18:59 -0500 Message-ID: <17CD9CE4C0FA574A8B29EF02D49B385D2A954E@srvexch-01.mcaschool.local> In-Reply-To: <200611062216.00438.noven@sincorp.org> Thread-Topic: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name Thread-Index: AccBtvVQVQJepEuvQw+jGEWmcDqbCwACB2Sg From: "Timothy A. Holmes" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id kA6GJ2bK009087 X-Archives-Salt: caba2abf-bf4f-45df-97b8-52a07b5a35ac X-Archives-Hash: 7158824d283037b4125b56f842429ec9 > On Monday 06 November 2006 21:59, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > > > I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort > can use the > > > higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite > sure where to > > > look even to begin this process. > > > > You can give arbitrary names to those interfaces by configuring udev > > appropriately: > > > > e.g. /etc/udev/rules.d/10-my-own-rules: > > ---snip > > KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:12:34:fe:dc:ba", NAME="eth-lan" > > KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:56:78:98:76:54", > NAME="eth-sniff" > > ---snip > > You could also just tell Snort to use eth1. But this is useful info. > > - Noven > -- > >-- Novensiles divi Flamen --< > >---- Miles Militis Fons ----< > > Ive been trying to do that - I can do it from command line, but not from init script which is why im trying to change the names around Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list