Joerg Mertin wrote:

>one thing coming to my mind - is that some Linux Distributions - like
>e.g. Ubuntu - link the interface number (ethx) to the Mac address hard
>via the udev daemon.
>This means - if you copy the configuration (network) onto another
>Hardware-System - you will not get eth0,eth1 ...ethn, but everything
>will start at: eth0+n,eth1+n ... ethn+m.
>Mean - you will eventually only get the default networkinterface
>configured as fallback.
>
>Under Ubuntu - check the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file
>and adapt the mac-address accordingly. Dunno if Debian itself is
>handling the same way.

Yes, Debian does that now - means interface names don't change on 
reboots :-) The file is z25-persistent-net-rules on Debian.

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