From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Network chip always comes up eth1 on 1-year-old Dell Inspiron 530
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:37:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807131037.10619.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080712235556.GA15967@waltdnes.org>
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
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-09 3:21 [gentoo-user] Network chip always comes up eth1 on 1-year-old Dell Inspiron 530 waltdnes
2008-07-09 7:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-07-12 23:55 ` Walter Dnes
2008-07-13 8:37 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-07-13 10:30 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-07-14 6:43 ` [gentoo-user] [OT] " Daniel Iliev
2008-07-14 10:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-07-14 16:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-07-14 22:17 ` Neil Bothwick
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