At 08:04 AM 7/21/00 +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: >At 09:56 AM 20/07/00 -0400, you wrote: > >>None of this blabber of yours solves the problem, so why waste everyone's >>time? Explaining why its broken is kind of like your mechanic telling you >>why your brakes sqeak. I dont care why they sqeak, i want them to stop >>sqeaking. > >I wasn't explaining why it was broken, I was explaing why relying on a >specific interface name is broken. As Donald said, they're just arbitary >labels. They have to be given out in some order - and whatever that order >is, is never going to suit everyone. Im sorry, but you're telling me if I plug an intel card in the slot the onboard ifac is eth1 and if I plug a tulip its eth0, and there is just no way that that can be correct. dennis - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
