Re: How to know the name of an ethernet interface.

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@mailsnare.net>]

Hello Juan,

actually you can name it via udev:
you may have a generated rules file that you can modify.

/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules


hth,
Jerome

Juan Lavieri wrote:
> Hi.
>
> The past weekend I did change my motherboard.  The new one has the 
> ethernet interface integrated into it (no other card of this type is 
> plugged)
>
> My surprise is is because my squeeze was unable to bring uo this 
> interface (eth0 didn't exists);  Guessin I change it to eth2 and 
> everything works.
>
> My questio is:  How can I know what name is asigned to a such a card?  
> Is there any command?  I'm looking on google and everybody sais etho is 
> the first, eth1 the second and so on.   I have only one and it's eth2, why?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
> Regards.
>
>
> Juan

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