[6bone] Re: about transition from ipv4 to ipv6

[jeroen@unfix.org (Jeroen Massar)]

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Mamatha Balachandra wrote:

> Dear Sir

Don't forget the Madam's here ;)

<SNIP>

> Now my doubt is : how to change the name of sit interface in 
> the output of ifconfig command? And even whatever I change in 
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/net/ipv6/sit.c it wont be affected in 
> the output of ifconfig. Also it won't ping www.6bone.net 
> using sit interface.

ip link set <interface> name <newname>

eg: ip link set sit0 name 6bone

(ip is in the iproute2 pacakge)

Or check man netdevice(7) and use the SIOCSIFNAME ioctl.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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