Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network chip always comes up eth1 on 1-year-old Dell Inspiron 530

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Monday 14 July 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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.

Consider this: if we could have assigned arbitrary names to interfaces 
since day one, we would have the exact same behaviour udev gives, 
everyone would agree this is a truly excellent thing and this thread 
would not exist.

The single minor difference is that you can't call the interface 
whatever you want directly, it just gets named the equally arbitrary 
name of "eth1"

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Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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