How do I name my network interface?
Eric F Crist
ecrist at secure-computing.net
Sun Oct 23 09:38:42 PDT 2005
On Oct 23, 2005, at 11:30 AM, 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.
>
If you type 'ifconfig -a' at the command line, it should list all
network interfaces...
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