On Sunday 13 July 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:44:51AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > > > > chip *ALWAYS* comes up as eth1. > > > > Udev is doing this. If you have removed the second card, > > delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, otherwise edit > > the file to switch the assignments for the two NICs. > > Thanks. A "new and improved helpfull feature" that could've done > without.
It's a trade-off for me. The interface might get a stupid name but at least it's the *same* stupid name every time, as opposed to the old method where interfaces were liable to change names based on what you did with your hardware this morning or the phases of the moon... -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
