Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <200904042356.01172.rei...@bellatlantic.net>, Andrew Reid wrote: >> Not only did I get confused and send a redundant message, I can >>now confirm that it's not fixed in lenny. > > That because it is not a bug, it is a feature and it is working as > designed. > > It is/was broken on my system since both of my network cards get random > MAC addresses on each boot (hardware issue best I can tell), but it is > easily fixed by writing a couple of udev rules to assign eth0 and eth1 by > PCI address instead of MAC address. > >> The file is /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. > > It is generated by 75-persistent-net-generator.rules.
hehe, thanks I was also interested in it somehow. I was always wondering why it changes after copying the system. I am bound to a static IP for most of the time coming from my provider, so last time I changed the firewall I wrote an init.d script to setup the hw of the old card ;-) this way my interface stayed the same after copying the system. thanks for explainging regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
