On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:43:21 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote:

> > It's hardly new, it's been around for some years. It is helpful if you
> > have two NICs because it means they are named consistently, which is
> > better than having your private network connected to the Internet
> > because the kernel decided to load the modules in a different order.

> 1) You can explicitly tell the kernel the order in which load the
> modules

And if the module for eth0 fails to load, the other card becomes eth0
instead of eth1. Using udev rules, the second card is always eth1,
whatever happens elsewhere in the system.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If at first you don't succeed, call in an airstrike.