On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:17:41PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > 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. I think this was a problem with hw-detect that Joey fixed already. Joey? -- Joshua Kwan
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