Meaningful names; was Re (3): dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-04-01 Thread peasthope
Brian, From: bri...@aracnet.com Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:39:14 -0700 ... tacked the new eth onto the end, so eth0 ended up being renamed eth3. The old Ethernet device remained in the rules file with the name eth0 and the new device was assigned the name eth3? So the new device was just

Re: Meaningful names; was Re (3): dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 12:18 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: [snip] Names such as eth0 and eth0.absent still do not solve the problem of identifying external hot swappable devices. Plug in three Linksys USB adapters yielding eth3, eth4 and eth5. Which eth is which? Meaningful names work. For example

Re: dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-31 Thread Matt Richardson
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:23 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: I mean really, why does the system still do stupid sh*t like this.  renamed network interface eth0 to eth3 Why oh why !  It was already eth0, what possible reason could it have to go rename it. oh and by the way, just to be

Re: dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-31 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 31 March 2011, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: I mean really, why does the system still do stupid sh*t like this. renamed network interface eth0 to eth3 Why oh why ! It was already eth0, what possible reason could it have to go rename it. oh and by the way, just to be maximally

Re: dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:37:57 -0400 (EDT), David Goodenough wrote: have a look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. This file tries to make sure that network adapters are always named in the same way in whatever order they are started. The problem comes when you replace a network

Re: dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-31 Thread briand
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:00:05 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:37:57 -0400 (EDT), David Goodenough wrote: have a look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. This file tries to make sure that network adapters are always named in the same

Re (2): dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-31 Thread peasthope
From: bri...@aracnet.com Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:34:32 -0700 It seems to me that this is a really ugly user trap, even if it's a trap you get into replacing the old motherboard. In the Linux world, udev is really a beautiful way of handling contemporary peripheral devices. eth0, eth1

[SOLVED] dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:34:32 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Thanks to everyone who responded ! That explains everything. I changed motherboards out from under the system. So it appended the new eth to the old ones. It seems to me that this is a really ugly user trap, even if

Re: Re (2): dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-31 Thread briand
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:32:18 -0800 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: bri...@aracnet.com Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:34:32 -0700 It seems to me that this is a really ugly user trap, even if it's a trap you get into replacing the old motherboard. In the Linux world, udev is really a beautiful

Re: [SOLVED] dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-31 Thread briand
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:06:51 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:34:32 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Thanks to everyone who responded ! That explains everything. I changed motherboards out from under the system. So it appended the

dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-30 Thread briand
I mean really, why does the system still do stupid sh*t like this. renamed network interface eth0 to eth3 Why oh why ! It was already eth0, what possible reason could it have to go rename it. oh and by the way, just to be maximally annoying, it most certainly decieds to name it something