On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 09:22:29PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > James Youngman wrote: >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:30 PM, lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 06:40:00PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> >>>> In <20090529225111.gf1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: >>>> >>>>> Anyway, I'd like to know what happened >>>>> to /dev/eth0. >>>>> >>>> I've never had a Linux box where /dev/eth0 existed. That said, I'm only >>>> been >>>> using it as my main OS since the end of 2004. >>>> > for an understanding of how ethernet interfaces work under linux, do a > "man interfaces" and nose around in /etc/network
That doesn't tell you where /dev/eth0 is to be found. > then, just to get more confused, do a "man udev" That doesn't tell you where it is, either. > one of the more confusing things is that, under some circumstances, a > machine will come up with eth0 assigned to a different physical > interface than you were expecting - the default rules try to keep eth0 > (or ethn) attached to the same mac address - so if you replace an > ethernet card, or move cards around, you can find that you no longer > have a network connection (I discovered this the hard way when > recovering from a badly crashed server) It always turned eth0 into eth1 for me, extremely annoying. I know, udev is seriously broken. It can also confuse your hard disks and thus cause data loss. It needs to be fixed. So where is /dev/eth0? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org