Information on which version of Debian and which kernel you use would be useful in answering this question. Whether or not you use udev would also be relevant.
Thursday, 23 February 2006 19:01, Ketil Froyn wrote: > Specifically, my problem is that the firewire driver suddenly started > using eth1 instead of eth2 yesterday. It hadn't done this before, and > I had to change my interfaces file as a result. The issue is that I > want a normal interface to be on eth1, and I want to be certain that > this never changes again. I have tried to edit /etc/modutils/aliases > and added (near the top) > > alias eth2 eth1394 If you use a 2.6 kernel, the modutils package which provided the /etc/modutils/alias file for 2.4 kernels has, as the package's description states, been superseded by the module-init-tools package. It appears the corresponding file therein is /etc/modprobe.d/aliases. If, however, you use udev, or if using udev is an option for you, it would probably be easiest and most elegant to write a rule for the naming of the different components based on their characteristics (such as MAC address). Here is a good introduction to this approach: http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2005/12/forcing-network-interface-names.html -- Alex Nordstrom http://lx.n3.net/ Please do not CC me in followups; I am subscribed to debian-user.
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