<quote who="Erik de Castro Lopo">

> I have a motherboard with two identical (apart from the MAC addresses of
> course) ethernet interfaces. The two MAC addresses are consectutively
> numbered; XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:34 and XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:35.
> 
> On most reboots, the interface with the 34 MAC address becomes eth2 and
> the other becomes eth3, but very occasionally they get swapped around
> which rather screws things up.
> 
> Is there any way to lock a MAC address to an interface name?

/etc/iftab to the rescue (if you're facing this problem on your usual Debian
or Ubuntu). Nice and simple! :-)

- Jeff

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