Re: Meaningful names; was Re (3): dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 12:18 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: [snip] Names such as eth0 and eth0.absent still do not solve the problem of identifying external hot swappable devices. Plug in three Linksys USB adapters yielding eth3, eth4 and eth5. Which eth is which? Meaningful names work. For example Links

Meaningful names; was Re (3): dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-04-01 Thread peasthope
Brian, From: bri...@aracnet.com Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:39:14 -0700 > ... tacked the new eth onto the end, so eth0 ended up being renamed eth3. The old Ethernet device remained in the rules file with the name eth0 and the new device was assigned the name eth3? So the new device was just