<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 -- OSCON 2007: Portland OR, USA http://conferences.oreillynet.com/oscon/ "I look forward to someday putting foo-colored ribbons on my homepage declaring 'port 25 is for spam', and 'just say no to the Spam Message Transmission Protocol!'" - Raph Levien -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
