On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:55:17 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > It's quite common to see a motherboard with a built-in ethernet > adapter, but I haven't seen any motherboards with *two* built-in > ethernet adapters.
I have been informed in a private e-mail that two built-in nics is not uncommon in motherboards designed for server use. I guess I'm more familiar with motherboards designed for desktop machines. This update is hereby noted. Nevertheless, the procedure outlined in my original post to this thread remains valid, except that it would obviously be impossible in such a case for only one of the two MAC addresses to change. If you replace the motherboard, or if you install the hard drive in another machine, *both* MAC addresses will change in this case. The point is that editing /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules (or whatever the equivalent file is depending on your machine architecture and udev release) is how you solve this problem. You want to delete entries for MAC addresses that *don't* exist in the machine, you want an entry there for all MAC addresses that *do* exist in the machine, and the correspondence between MAC addresses and Linux device names is determined by the contents of this file. -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2111756765.21867561269625223570.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
