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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
