On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:21:46PM +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 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)!
And I believe the order is reversed between 2.4 kernels and 2.6 kernels. I believe this is easily done by the new udev (although I haven't used it). You might also look at "nameif" in the net-tools package. -- 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]
