On Sunday 13 December 2020 at 21:42:50, Simon Hobson wrote: > Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > > I had to solve it by assigning new names to the interfaces (thus not eth0 > > or eth1) and modifying all the config files mentioning those interface > > names (I found them with grep) to use the new names instead. > > Not for the OPs reason, but a long time ago I started to use "meaningful > names" like ethext, ethint, and so on. Making it clearer in config files > what each interface is.
Ironically enough, that is precisely what I have done on my own routers, which have interfaces named "Internet", "Clients", "Phones", "PubServers" and "PriServers". I did that because by default they create VLAN interfaces called eth0.0, eth0.1, eth0.2 etc, and so I used the rename facility in /etc/network/interfaces to give them names which meant something to me. > I think removing the need to remember something is better than being good > at remembering it (which I'm not anyway !) I completely agree with that, however in this case (wanting eth0 to be on the motherboard and eth1/2 to be the PCI card), is close enough to "familiar" for me not to get confused about it (once I get the machine to agree on the names). Antony. -- I know I always wanted to be somebody, but I guess I should have been more specific. Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng