On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 00:03:11 +0100 "Udo A. Steinberg" <us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote: > DaveM, can we not find a better solution to this? Or should I look up > interface names by MAC address in the future? Yes, use labelling based upon the MAC address, most distributions provide the tools and config files necessary to do this automatically. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html