[TriLUG] reliably get network devices

[Brian McCullough]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 08:24:22AM -0400, Reginald Reed wrote:
> I'm curious as to why you wouldn't want to use MAC addresses.  I
> combination of the MAC + ifconfig output would be pretty good mapping
> of physical to logical.  Since, in most instances, the MAC address of
> a NIC wouldn't change, you could easily determine the mapping to ethX
> on any boot.
> 
> What am I missing?

I _think_ he's looking for something that he can use to walk up to a
completely unknown machine and just automatically "know" what the
network devices are.

Kevin?


Brian