Bug#259747: netcfg: Problems when several interfaces are available
Package: netcfg
Version: 0.71
Severity: normal
When several ethernet devices are available, the name of the device is
not a reliable way to identify it. For example, when booting d-i on my
laptop, the firewire port was detected as eth0 and the 100baseT one was
detected as eth1. At the time of reboot, hotplug identified eth0 as the
100baseT and eth1 as the firewire, and the network stopped working.
This could be solved by identifying adapters by their MAC address;
ifupdown allows that using external scripts, but it isn't a builtin
function. There may be other solutions, but that's the only idea I can
think of.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-1-386
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8
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