On Thursday 15 July 2004 19:10, CW Harris wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:02:05PM +0200, John van Spaandonk wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 July 2004 11:39, John Summerfield wrote: > > > John van Spaandonk wrote: > > > >On Tuesday 13 July 2004 01:29, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > > >>Any last words before I > > > >># apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7 > > > >>on my home (sid) PC? > > > >> > > > >>Will things break that used to work in 2.4? > > > > > > > >I still stick with 2.4 for the following reason. > > > > > > > >I use two ethernet cards: > > > >eth0 is connected to the cable modem (it has to be this > > > >particular card because of the MAC address) > > You can also use ifconfig to lie about the MAC address - I did this on > one machine when I changed NICs and didn't want to hassle with my ISP > regarding the change. > > E.g. add a > pre-up ifconfig eth0 hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > stanza to your network/interfaces file. (Of course this doesn't solve > the problem about them behaving differently in 2.4 vs. 2.6). > > > > >eth1 is my home network > > > >2.6 reverses the names eth0 and eth1 > > > >Apparently the PCI scanning order > > > >changed - right, why keep something the same if you can change it? :-) > > snip > > ifrename is available in Sarge & Sid (note I have not used it--but it > seems suited for this purpose). I suppose udev might do this also, but > I haven't tried it. > > $apt-cache show ifrename > > Package: ifrename > Priority: extra > Section: net > Installed-Size: 60
thanks. Will try this.. John > Maintainer: Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: i386 > Source: wireless-tools > Version: 26+27pre22-1 > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libiw27 (>= 26+27pre10) > Filename: pool/main/w/wireless-tools/ifrename_26+27pre22-1_i386.deb > Size: 37400 > MD5sum: 74b13cffda8ff9a00e779cd94db6c490 > Description: Rename network interfaces based on various static criteria > Ifrename allow the user to decide what name a network interface will have. > Ifrename can use a variety of selectors to specify how interface names > match the network interfaces on the system, the most common selector is the > interface MAC address. > > HTH > > -- > Chris Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ------------------------------------------- > GNU/Linux --- The best things in life are free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
