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Jeff Schaller
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How to assign two different interface name on the same NIC card (Hardware MAC address)

I am using a Ubuntu Linux system. For my task I have to run some modules by executing the respective scripts. All the modules must run at the same time in the background but all have different interface names, IPV4 & IPV6 addresses configuration. So, basically I have to run different modules simultaneously having different IP configuration.
Here I am specifying all the NIC card interfaces address & its corresponding name in a persistent net rules file. Suppose I have one NIC card Mac address and want to assign two different interface names associated with the same Mac address. I know we can assign multiple virtual IP's to a particular interface by making alias of it.
But how can we assign different interface names to a particular Hardware MAC address?

For example:

Persistent-net-generator.rules rules file. We can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single line, and change only the value of the NAME= key.

net device ()
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?", ATTR{address}=="00:04:9f:02:81:97", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth", NAME="eth0"

net device ()
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?", ATTR{address}=="00:04:9f:02:81:96", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth", NAME="eth1"

net device ()
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?", ATTR{address}=="00:04:9f:02:81:95", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth", NAME="eth2"

How to get two interface names associated with Mac address "00:04:9f:02:81:97"?

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