On Wednesday 24 January 2007 01:33, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > > As a matter of interest, why has my NetworkManager > > > > > started using eth1 in place of eth0, which it used to use?
> 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. As the OP, I don't really mind whether NM (or udev) finds eth0 or eth1. I just wondered why one or the other changed. Before I went over to NM, the choice between eth0 and eth1 depended on the entries in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? If there was only an ifcfg-eth0 then only eth0 would be used. As far as I can see NM doesn't look at these files. I see that my /etc/modprobe.conf contains the lines alias eth0 orinoco_cs alias eth1 orinoco_cs I'm pretty sure I didn't add them - did NM? [I find programs that alter files like this without telling me slightly annoying, I must confess.] -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
