On July 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Am Dienstag, den 04.07.2006, 08:10 -0400 schrieb Alfred: > > > has anyone had trouble with dual or triple network cards > > switching positions? Example one bootup and card #1 is eth0 and > > the next it is eth3 > > have a look at /etc/iftab and man iftab you can bind them fixed to > a interface name by specifying the MAC address.
You can also use udev on its own to handle this cleanly, without involving ifrename: http://www.debian-administration.org/users/Utumno/weblog/2 For example: [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /etc/udev/netinterfaces.rules KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="29:19:db:4b:b6:6b", NAME="3com" KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="d7:53:f6:7d:fd:d8", NAME="wireless" KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="f1:c1:a1:27:10:f0", NAME="wired" KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="26:df:48:50:b0:db:86:c5", NAME="fw" [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -la /etc/udev/rules.d/010_netinterfaces.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2006-06-05 01:36 /etc/udev/rules.d/010_netinterfaces.rules -> ../netinterfaces.rules [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ hth, --dkg -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
