Re: Meaningful names; was Re (3): dreaded ethernet device renaming

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 04/01/2011 12:18 PM, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
[snip]
> Names such as eth0 and eth0.absent still do not solve the problem of identifying
> external hot swappable devices.  Plug in three Linksys USB adapters yielding
> eth3, eth4 and eth5.  Which eth is which?  Meaningful names work.
> For example LinksysLCS218213733 is the one with LCS218213733 marked on it.
> The serial numbers are machine readable of course and a udev script to assign
> a name containing the brand name and the serial number isn't terribly
> difficult.  Editing /etc/udev/rules/70-persistent-net.rules is trivial.

I have *no* idea what the serial number is on the network "card" built 
onto my mobo.  No one does.

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