On Tuesday 23 January 2007 21:51, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 20:38 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > >> > >> 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. > > Sometimes it does make a difference, though, to other tools. I have an > annoying license manager for some commercial software that keys off the > HWADDR of eth0.
I agree. It would be nice not to be tied to specific interface names, but it's not always an option, and I went to considerable effort to make other software play nice (e.g. fetchmail still doesn't behave as I would like - I would prefer it to work differently over wired or wireless, since I can't do that any more, I just make it behave as if it's always over the wireless link). -- derek _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
