rich wrote:
I have several network cards in my laptop - wired lan, wireless lan, loopback & firewire. After a recent update (I'm running testing) my interface numbers all jumped around so that instead of the wired lan being eth0, it's now eth1 & the firewire is eth0. What defines what eth'x' number is given to which network device? It's a pain having to
I may be mistaken but AFAIK the interface number is determined by what order the modules are loaded into the kernel. On my laptop I have both wireless and wired networks so to ensure consistency I use /etc/modules to manually order the loading sequence.
MBG -- Matthew Guenther Mechanical Engineering Graduate Researcher University of Victoria mguenthe@me.uvic.ca http://antiflux.org/~mguenthe/