On 2013-04-07 4:09 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:25:50AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2013-04-05 4:11 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
Do you have your network interface drivers built into the kernel or are
they modules?
I'm very interested in the significance of this question...
My server is module free, so all drivers are built into the kernel.
The significance is that the kernel determines the eth* name order.
Right now, you are lucky in that the order is what you think it should
be, but if something changes in the kernel causing your cards to be
initialized in a different order, you will not be allowed to swap them
around in the eth* name space, e.g. eth1 can't become eth0 or visa
versa.
That is why it is recommended that you use something like net0, net1,
etc for your interface names.
Wow... that is actually what I was thinking it meant, but wasn't sure...
Thanks for the validation!
