On 2009-09-01 07:16, C. G. Montgomery wrote:
Ron Johnson ron.l.johnson@cox.net wrote:On 2009-08-31 21:26, C. G. Montgomery wrote:Ron Johnson ron.l.johnson@cox.net wrote:<snippage>How can I specify the MAC address so it will be used correctly?But your system already knows it's MAC address as eth0. Why not use it for your DSL connection???I'd like to use the name eth1. I may want to have a different interface eth0 to be used for other purposes. For now, I just want a single network interface that will work with the DSL modem.
Use eth1 for the "other purposes" when you install another NIC?
(There is more explanation of my situation in my reply to the posting by Andrei Popescu made on 2009-09-01 2:40 am.)
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