On Tue, 23 May 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> To be honest, I don't think any of it's necessary in the kernel.
> The initial device ordering isn't non-deterministic, so it should suffice to
> simply work out which eth%d you have to pass to the kernel on the command
> line to get it to work nicely on your network. Perhaps you may have to
> recalculate that each time you change your BIOS/kernel, but it's not going
> to change very often.
>
> Heuristics for changing the device names from userspace later are a
> different issue, and MAC addresses, although not universally unique, are a
> sensible option for allowing a sysadmin to number their interfaces.
Specifying "eth%d" sounds like a reasonable approach. MAC addresses won't
work in quite a few circumstances; I would try to avoid having a system of
"On these platforms, identify NICs by MAC address; on other platforms, use
<thing>".
James.
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