[TriLUG] reliably get network devices

[Alan Porter]

> I wonder if the underlying problem is that the OS uses the
> non-deterministic "order in which they respond to a probe" to be the
> order of the NICs, in which case I may be up a creek.  I hope not.
>   

On first boot, Debian sets up a udev rule (in /etc/udev/rules.d) that
maps a particular MAC address to a particular label (eth0, eth1, etc). 
This rule creation itself is handled by a udev rule.  That way, on
subsequent boots, you can expect the NIC's to keep the labels that they
started with.


Alan




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