Re: The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order

Alan Cox
2003-05-08T22:32:39Z

On Iau, 2003-05-08 at 20:32, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> My belief is that configuration scripts should be specified in
> term of MAC address (or subset) and not in term of device name. Just
> like the Pcmcia scripts are doing it.
> And let's go the extra mile : ifconfig should accept a MAC
> address as the argument instead of a device name. And in the long
> term, just get rid of device name from the user view.

Current Red Hat supports naming interfaces by their mac address. That
keeps most people happy except some sparc and embedded users who have
one mac per host not per card (and yes that *is* allowed by the
802.x spec)