=> On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:29:14 -0400
=> "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[email protected]> wrote:
=>> and then reboot. If I forget to adjust the network cards I am locked
=>> out until I go to the server room. My solution is to add this to the
=>> top of rc.conf:
=>>
=>> read eth0 eth1 _ <<< `ifconfig -l`
=>
=> In any case, this doesn't work. It's a bash operator and rc.conf is
=> run by sh. I will have to do something else to get the values.
=> However, I still don't know if I can depend on the order. Can anyone
=> tell me that?
=>
=> Maybe Linux has the right idea. The ethernet cards are always eth# no
=> matter what the actual hardware.
Note that that isn't universal across Linux. I have at least one fairly
modern Linux box at work which renames the interfaces from eth# to
something else.
Gary Duzan
