Re: Binding names to network devices

2004-02-27 Thread Cameron Patrick
Joshua Kwan wrote: | new device is 'eth0' | write 'eth0:Realtek 8139 10/100 Ethernet' to /etc/network/devnames | continue On a related note, something that sets up nameif and /etc/mactab to make sure that the names are the same on every boot no matter when the drivers are loaded would be nice. C

Binding names to network devices

2004-02-26 Thread Joshua Kwan
Hi -boot, Currently there are three bugs against netcfg that complain that if one has two Ethernet cards plugged in, we can't distinguish between them by name: they show up simply as Ethernet or Fast Ethernet (or Wireless Device (802.11x) if it's in /proc/net/wireless) and if you have multiple one