On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 21:21 +0000, rich wrote: > I have several network cards in my laptop - wired lan, wireless lan, > loopback & firewire. After a recent update (I'm running testing) my > interface numbers all jumped around so that instead of the wired lan > being eth0, it's now eth1 & the firewire is eth0. What defines what > eth'x' number is given to which network device?
It's the order they are stumbled across during boot -- SCSI disks are a lot like that, too. > It's a pain having to > change configuration each time they move numbers (as also happens > depending on whether I boot with my wireless cardbus in the slot or > not)! How true, how true! And if you have 2 different Enet interfaces, and the load order of the kernel modules changes, eth1 and eth0 are swapped -- but the addresses aren't (3 hours debugging yesterday). Linux is clearly intended for very static systems, hardware-wise. OTOH, if you set up a DHCP server to always assign addresses by MAC address, the ethn numbers may change, but the network addresses won't. I haven't figured out what to do about SCSI yet. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
