Package: debian-reference Version: 1.09-3 Severity: normal Section 10.7 discusses how to deal with inconsistent device naming by the kernel. This problem has become more acute with newer kernels and modern hardware (firewire typically gets an ethernet driver, so more people have 2 eth*).
The udev maintainer has said this should be fixed before etch releases (bug 350183), so the discussion may become of historical interest. For now, it would probably be good to mention using udev to solve the problem. The current documentation of nameif and ifrename (both in this document and in the packages) doesn't really say how those should be hooked in, and I couldn't figure out how to do so properly. If the discussion of these options remains, it would be good to spell that out. A final issue is that some people have tried to use either /etc/network/interfaces mapping or udev to pin the device names to standard ones (e.g., eth0). This fails intermittently, presumably because the names are already in use. So the positive advice "use a name other than the standard kernel ones" would be helpful. See this message http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/04/msg02344.html for more pointers. Finally, I note that that the ethernet devices appear under /sys, not /dev. I don't know why, but apparently udev can manage the names under sys too. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27advncdfs Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
