Antti J. Huhtala wrote:
> > The GUI approach is to go to
System->Administration->Network and edit
> > the nicknames of NICs. In my case I changed "eth0.bak" to
"lan" and
> > "eth1.bak" to "wan" because my eth0 card is connected to
local network
> > and eth1 card to the Internet.
>
> As a matter of interest, where did you read that you could make
> changes like this?
...
> Or was it just by experiment?
>
Yes. Noting that the GUI window stated my eth1 nickname was eth1.bak
although I don't remember having seen that nickname before, I just
started experimenting. First nicknaming eth0 to "lan" brought eth0
connection to life at next boot, and then eth1 to "wan" brought internet
connection to life at the next.
Afterwards I realized there were no ifcfg-eth0 or ifcfg-eth1 files
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. They apparently had been named to
"ethx.bak" by new kernel or one of the updated packages with it.
That is more or less my experience.
system-config-network (or its GUI entries) seems to edit and re-name files
for no reason that I can see.
But I'm surprised that you can rename the interfaces as you wish,
eg in your case to lan and wan.
I would have thought this would confuse udev.
Maybe system-config-network is cleverer than I gave it credit for ...
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