Re: 2.6 kernel network interface assignment order

[Keegan Quinn <ice@wasteland.respond2.com>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 03:53:57PM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote:
> If it's really critical, or happens often, perhaps you'll want to write 
> a custom init script that looks at the hardware address of the 
> interface, and configures the appropriate IP settings for the interface.
> 
> Something like the following crude outline:
> 
> devs="eth0 eth1 eth2"

[snipped]

You don't need to hack around that problem with custom init scripts;
Debian's ifupdown supports it nicely.

See /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples/network-interfaces.gz.

HTH,

 - Keegan