On Thursday 29 August 2019 09:26:25 mick crane wrote: > On 2019-08-29 13:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 08:19:29PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Thats a miss-statement. I do want persistent interface names EVEN > >> if I move this boot drive to a whole new box. > >> > >> This machine does in fact have 2 nic's. And I have indeed used > >> both at > >> the same time but haven't mastered "consistently". > > > > I cannot for the life of me figure out what you want. If you can > > ever figure out how to state your desires clearly, we'll try to help > > you. > > > > Until then, um, good luck with whatever this is. I mean this > > literally, > > because apparently your network configuration relies on random > > chance to succeed. > > hardly scientific but if you want to see which NIC is which do some > network activity and see which light is flashing. > mick
That requires turning the whole 30" tall tower around, and hoping all the cables still reach. A genuine PITA. This room is mine. Its a midden heap, but its my midden heap. Its main switch src's 5 pieces of cat-5 reaching to the corners of the property, some of which has been blowing in the wind since the turn of the century, even surviving a 120 mph recorded direcho that took down 4 mature pines, removed part of my roof, a bunch of privacy fence and demolished several sheet steel garden sheds in 2010. Given the path one of those garden sheds followed going by the back of my house, ripping off the gutter and damaging the siding, it should have been ripped out. Still there, still working. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
