On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 00:07 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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?
No; that's likely the installer or your distros network config tool. I believe that system-config-network on Fedora does add stuff to modprobe.conf to try to ensure that the NIC always gets the same device name. Dan > [I find programs that alter files like this without telling me > slightly annoying, I must confess.] > > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
