On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:36:45 -0400, Miles Fidelman posted: [...] > Yeah, but it's a feature that's not well publicized and causes confusing > behavior. > > Standard behavior, for years, has been to expect eth0 to be assigned to > a machine's primary network interface. udev's behavior is more than a > little counter-intuitive, and not well publicized or documented. You > don't really expect to replace a network card and suddenly have your > machine not be able to find the network.
Well, it was covered pretty well in the release notes for Lenny. It is always a good idea to read the release notes for a new release previous to upgrading. Because I read them, it wasn't as surprising to me and I found the documentation sufficient. That was my experience. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org