Re: Determine order of network interfaces

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Alex Nordstrom wrote:
> If, however, you use udev, or if using udev is an option for you, it 
> would probably be easiest and most elegant to write a rule for the 
> naming of the different components based on their characteristics (such 
> as MAC address). Here is a good introduction to this approach:
> 
> http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2005/12/forcing-network-interface-names.html

And here's how it is done without kludges (requires a new enough kernel and
udev):

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/udev.htm

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