Re: The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order

Dick Streefland
2003-05-09T12:30:28Z

Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org> wrote:
| Debian already supports this, integrated into the normal scheme for
| dealing with interfaces. Anyone running Debian can take a look at
| /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples directory, the network-interfaces.gz
| file contains sample /etc/network/interfaces stanzas for configuring
| your interfaces via MAC address:
|
| auto eth0 eth1
| mapping eth0 eth1
| script /path/to/get-mac-addr.sh
| map 11:22:33:44:55:66 lan
| map AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF internet
| iface lan inet static
| address 192.168.42.1
| netmask 255.255.255.0
| pre-up /usr/local/sbin/enable-masq $IFACE
| iface internet inet dhcp
| pre-up /usr/local/sbin/firewall $IFACE

I just do:

auto net
iface net inet static
pre-up nameif net 00:00:C0:4F:8B:F6
...

auto lan
iface lan inet static
pre-up nameif lan 00:60:B0:EC:92:F9
...

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