From: Dawid Zabrocki (adminchs.pl)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 09:55:03 CST

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> I think there's a really easy way to do this that everyone seems to be
> missing (or I'm missing something in the question!).
>
> You can have as many hostname.if files as you wish. Install one for
> each NIC you would likely ever come across (if you want to get fancy,
> make them all hard links, so they only take up one block and a bunch of
> inodes on the disk).

wouldn't it be better to modify /etc/netstart to run dhclient for every
found ethernet device,
and configure hotplugd to run dhclient for any hotplugged ethernet card
?

Its' even easier.

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