Re: Determine order of network interfaces

2006-03-02 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Ketil Froyn wrote: Hi, I have a computer with some network interfaces, and I am unable to determine which physical interface gets assigned to which ethX during boot. Specifically, my problem is that the firewire driver suddenly started using eth1 instead of eth2 yesterday. It hadn't done thi

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

2006-02-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Alex Nordstrom wrote: > If, however, you use udev, or if using udev is an option for you, it > would probably be easiest and most elegant to write a rule for the > naming of the different components based on their characteristics (such > as MAC address). Here is a good intro

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

2006-02-23 Thread Peter McAlpine
Debian's /etc/network/interfaces configuration file supports checking for charactaristics of an interface before bringing it up. /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples/network-interfaces.gz has the skinny on this. -Peter On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:01:14PM +0100, Ketil Froyn wrote: >Hi, > >I ha

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

2006-02-23 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Ketil Froyn escribe: > Warning: Interface name is `eth0' at line 1, can't be mapped reliably. As far as I know this warning is not relevant, ifrename works for me without a flaw. Cordially, Ismael -- mí, myself et moi http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/pho

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

2006-02-23 Thread Ketil Froyn
On 2/23/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you do not want to switch to udev, maybe the package 'ifrename' canensure a deterministic naming of your network interfaces. I always hadproblems when using ethX (as Magnus has also pointed out in his mail) which I avoided by assigning new na

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

2006-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
Ketil Froyn wrote: On 2/23/06, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My temporary solution was to change the pattern for one of the devices. My problematic device is a rt2500-based PCI wireless card. I put the following in a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ : options rt2500 ifname=wlan%d That r

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

2006-02-23 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
El Jueves, 23 de Febrero de 2006 12:01, Ketil Froyn escribió: > Hi, > > I have a computer with some network interfaces, and I am unable to > determine which physical interface gets assigned to which ethX during boot. > > Specifically, my problem is that the firewire driver suddenly started using >

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

2006-02-23 Thread Ketil Froyn
On 2/23/06, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My temporary solution was to change the pattern for one of the devices.My problematic device is a rt2500-based PCI wireless card. I put thefollowing in a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ : options rt2500 ifname=wlan%d That renamed my wireless to wlan0,

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

2006-02-23 Thread Ketil Froyn
On 2/23/06, Alex Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Information on which version of Debian and which kernel you use would beuseful in answering this question. Whether or not you use udev wouldalso be relevant.Thanks for the quick reply! I use debian 3.1 with the 2.6.8-2 kernel. Thursday, 23 Febr

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

2006-02-23 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:01:14PM +0100, Ketil Froyn wrote: >Hi, > >I have a computer with some network interfaces, and I am unable to >determine which physical interface gets assigned to which ethX during >boot. I've just recently run into the same problem. >Specifically, my problem is that the

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

2006-02-23 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Information on which version of Debian and which kernel you use would be useful in answering this question. Whether or not you use udev would also be relevant. Thursday, 23 February 2006 19:01, Ketil Froyn wrote: > Specifically, my problem is that the firewire driver suddenly started > using eth

Determine order of network interfaces

2006-02-23 Thread Ketil Froyn
Hi,I have a computer with some network interfaces, and I am unable to determine which physical interface gets assigned to which ethX during boot.Specifically, my problem is that the firewire driver suddenly started using eth1 instead of eth2 yesterday. It hadn't done this before, and I had to chang