>> I asked about this recently - apparently you can force ethn -
> NIC MAC address mapping. And I noticed on SuSE 9.1 that all
> interfaces are somehow MAC related in name, because of the
> prevalence of hot pluggable stuff now - though you can still
> refer to them as eth0 etc.
I've seen this in Redhat or Whitebox, at least one of them has this
feature. I E'mailed john offlist by accident saying the same :)
But this would definitely get rid of any problems when adding a new NIC
to an already multi NIC system.
Paul
Maintained by the ILUG website team. The aim of Linux.ie is to
support and help commercial and private users of Linux in Ireland. You can
display ILUG news in your own webpages, read backend
information to find out how. Networking services kindly provided by HEAnet, server kindly donated by
Dell. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds,
used with permission. No penguins were harmed in the production or maintenance
of this highly praised website. Looking for the
Indian Linux Users' Group? Try here. If you've read all this and aren't a lawyer: you should be!
