Re: The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order

[Dick Streefland]

Ray Lee <[e-mail]> wrote:
| Debian already supports this, integrated into the normal scheme for
| dealing with interfaces. Anyone running Debian can take a look at
| /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples directory, the network-interfaces.gz
| file contains sample /etc/network/interfaces stanzas for configuring
| your interfaces via MAC address:
| 
| 	auto eth0 eth1
| 	mapping eth0 eth1
| 		script /path/to/get-mac-addr.sh
| 		map 11:22:33:44:55:66 lan
| 		map AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF internet
| 	iface lan inet static
| 		address 192.168.42.1
| 		netmask 255.255.255.0
| 		pre-up /usr/local/sbin/enable-masq $IFACE
| 	iface internet inet dhcp
| 		pre-up /usr/local/sbin/firewall $IFACE

I just do:

	auto  net
	iface net inet static
		pre-up    nameif net 00:00:C0:4F:8B:F6  
		...

	auto  lan
	iface lan inet static
		pre-up    nameif lan 00:60:B0:EC:92:F9  
		...

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