Thank you to both Chris and Justin... it was indeed udev that caught me off guard here.
For the record, and for the list archive so that anyone in the future can quickly resolve such quickly: Slackware 12 uses udev which stores the MAC addresses in: /etc/udev/rules.d/75-network-devices.rules Once a card has been seen, the MAC address is stored there and it will not assign the eth# identifier to any other card. New cards introduced to a system will be assigned subsequent numbers that have not yet been used. Key words for searching: Slackware 12, ethernet, numbering, higher number, different number, eth device, no eth0 _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
