How do I name my network interface?

Chris racerx at makeworld.com
Sun Oct 23 09:32:46 PDT 2005


Andreas Davour wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I have realized that my new motherboard has a built-in network
> interface, and I'd like to use it as well as the PCI based one I have.
> 
> But, what do I call it when I plumb it with "ifconfig"?
> 
> The PCI card I have is identified during boot as rl0, and the built-in
> as "rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0".
> 
> Using "ifconfig rlphy0 plumb" does not work. It says:
> ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE: Invalid argument
> 
> and that's it.
> 
> So, what do I call it? I tried rl1 as well, no cookie.
> 
> /andreas
> 

Do this:  dmesg | more

Look for instances of all nics.
If its onboard - it may be called fxp0

-- 
Best regards,
Chris

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