Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262138AbTEHVbi (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 17:31:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262140AbTEHVba (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 17:31:30 -0400 Received: from zeke.inet.com ([199.171.211.198]:47581 "EHLO zeke.inet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262138AbTEHVb1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 17:31:27 -0400 Message-ID: <3EBACF9D.5070501@inet.com> Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 16:43:57 -0500 From: Eli Carter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jt@hpl.hp.com CC: Linux kernel mailing list , Russell King , "Randy.Dunlap" , Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order References: <20030508193245.GA26721@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1435 Lines: 35 Jean Tourrilhes wrote: [snip] > Randy.Dunlap wrote : > >>An alternative is to use 'nameif' to associate MAC addresses with >>interface names. See here for mini HOWTO: >> >> http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/network-interface-names.txt > > > Currently this feels like a kludge, because not fully > inegrated, but goes in the right direction. > Actually, it's pretty funny that the original Pcmcia package > got it right since the beggining (and Win2k as well), but > distributions took a step backward from that when integrating Pcmcia. > My belief is that configuration scripts should be specified in > term of MAC address (or subset) and not in term of device name. Just > like the Pcmcia scripts are doing it. > And let's go the extra mile : ifconfig should accept a MAC > address as the argument instead of a device name. And in the long > term, just get rid of device name from the user view. Some network devices do not have a mac address on power-up and must be supplied one. Eli --------------------. "If it ain't broke now, Eli Carter \ it will be soon." -- crypto-gram eli.carter(a)inet.com `------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/