* Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2007, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > It really should show the MAC address to let you distinguish which > > interface you intend to use; in my case I have a set of Dell PE 1955 > > blades where the ether card the BIOS sees as the first device is seen > > as eth1 under Debian and I know the Mac address of the appropriate one. > > This is a known issue. I've merged your request with existing similar > requests. What we really need at this point is someone motivated to > actually propose and implement a solution...
Thanks - I'm curious what there is to propose about it; just printing the MAC address of the interface either next to or as a 2nd line for each interface should do it - or is there something harder about that which I'm missing? Dave -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
