How do I name my network interface?

[Roland Smith]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 06:30:35PM +0200, 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".

This is not another network card, but another interface to the rl0 card.

Using "dmesg |grep 'Ethernet address'|sort|uniq" gives a list of network
interfaces.

Roland
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