On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 20:38 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > On Tuesday 23 January 2007 19:53, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 January 2007 23:31, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > > As a matter of interest, why has my NetworkManager > > > > started using eth1 in place of eth0, which it used to use? > > > > > > Probably you are using a different card... > > > > Same card. Sorry > > > > > > Is there anywhere I can specify which device I want to use? > > > > > > If so, check /etc/iftab > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ less /etc/iftab > > /etc/iftab: No such file or directory > > In which case, investigate whether iftab is available under your distro - > it's > used in Ubuntu to tie a MAC address to a specific interface. As Dan said, > udev can assign the interface numbers apparently randomly (my eth0 & eth1 > frequently exchange positions, but my network configuration is set up so as > not to care).
And that's the point; NM means you don't _need_ to care what the device name is. Really, you shouldn't ever need to look at it, nor care what it's value is. I don't tie my devices to MAC addresses, and they switch around every now and again, but it doesn't matter to me as they always do the right thing under NetworkManager. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
