[TriLUG] reliably get network devices

[Kevin Hunter]

At 8:48a -0400 on Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Brian McCullough wrote:
> 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.

Yeap, that's what I want.  Thanks for clarifying, Brian.  I've gotten a
couple of leads (from this thread) I didn't have before, so I'll check
those out and get back to the list.  I'm sure I'll be able to better
describe it after I solve my issue.  :-p

Kevin