On Friday 07 April 2006 14:02, chris jackson wrote: > why, after working just fine for over a month, would my computer start > assigning different numbers to my network interfaces? My wireless, that > always used to be eth1 is now eth2, my pci card that used to be eth2 is > now eth3, even though eth0 is still my ethernet connection. I had to > change all eth1s to eth2s in my interfaces file and it came right up. I > haven't changed anything in the system; I suppose I ran an upgrade > yesterday, but it didn't ask me for any configuration options so I > didn't think it was changing anything besides libraries and things. Is > there any way I can tell it to start assigning things back to where they > should be? Also, the little "network devices" thing that's available as > a panel tool no longer shows up any devices except lo, and that's what I > usually use to switch between devices because it's a little faster than > opening a terminal. I'm running etch with a 2.6.15 kernel. > > chris
I am guessing that you are using udev. If so, it is known to cause network assignment order to change. There are at least 2 ways to solve this: 1. Use ifrename 2. Write a special udev rule that associates MAC address with specified interface. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
