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Paul Hoffman
Asked: 2011-09-29 10:14:51 +0800 CST

Aliasing/mapping a network device in Ubuntu

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In Ubuntu, I have two ethernet interfaces eth1 and eth3 that I want to call "foo0" and "foo1", respectively. Basically, I want something like "ip link alias DEVICE SECONDNAME". Is there a way to do this without mucking in the kernel?

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  1. Best Answer

    In Ubuntu you can change the name of interfaces in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. That would be far and away the simplest solution.

    If there is a real need for the interface to be aliased as foo0 rather than be renamed then you can do something dirty with bridge-tools.

    sudo apt-get install bridge-utils

    then edit your /etc/network/interfaces file to be something like..

    auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual


auto foo0 
iface foo0 inet static     
address 192.168.10.10     
netmask 255.255.255.0     
vlan-raw-device eth0     
bridge_ports vlan10
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