nameif(8) [centos man page]

NAMEIF(8)						Linux System Administrator's Manual						 NAMEIF(8)

NAME

       nameif - name network interfaces based on MAC addresses

SYNOPSIS

       nameif [-c configfile] [-s]
       nameif [-c configfile] [-s] {interface macaddress}

NOTE

       This program is obsolete. For replacement check ip link.  This functionality is also much better provided by udev methods.

DESCRIPTION

       nameif  renames	network  interfaces  based on mac addresses. When no arguments are given /etc/mactab is read. Each line  of it contains an
       interface name and a Ethernet MAC address. Comments are allowed starting with #.  Otherwise the interfaces specified on	the  command  line
       are processed.  nameif looks for the interface with the given MAC address and renames it to the name given.

       When the -s argument is given all error messages go to the syslog.

       When the -c argument is given with a file name that file is read instead of /etc/mactab.

NOTES

       nameif should be run before the interface is up, otherwise it'll fail.

FILES

       /etc/mactab

SEE ALSO

       ip(8), udev(7)

BUGS

       Only works for Ethernet currently.

net-tools							    2008-10-03								 NAMEIF(8)

NCFTOOL(1)						       Network Configuration							NCFTOOL(1)

NAME

       ncftool - Network configuration tool

SYNOPSIS

       ncftool [command [options]]

DESCRIPTION

       ncftool is a command line utility to configure networking.  It can be invoked with no arguments to bring up the interactive ncftool shell.
       Alternatively a command and optional arguments can be specified to have ncftool execute the command non-interactively.

COMMANDS

   list [--macs] [--all] [--inactive]
       List the currently configured toplevel network interfaces

       [--macs] - show MAC addresses
       [--all] - show all (up & down) interfaces
       [--inactive] - show only inactive (down) interfaces

   dumpxml [--mac] [--live] name
       Dump the XML description of an interface

       [--mac] - interpret the name as MAC address
       [--live] - include information about the live interface
       name - the name of the interface

   define xmlfile
       Define an interface from the specified XML file.

   undefine iface
       Remove the configuration of the specified interface.

   ifup iface
       Bring up specified interface.

   ifdown iface
       Bring down specified interface.

   change-begin
       Mark the beginning of a set of revertible network configuration changes.

   change-commit
       Commit (make permanent) a set of network configuration changes begun with change-begin.

   change-rollback
       Rollback (revert) a set of network configuration changes begun with change-begin.

   help [command]
       Print details about command, if specified, or list all commands if command is not specified.

   quit
       Exit the program.

SEE ALSO

       interfaces (5)

AUTHORS

       Please refer to the AUTHORS file distributed with netcf.

netcf-0.2.2							    2012-12-20								NCFTOOL(1)