Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 May 2003 16:23:41 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order |
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On 08 May 2003 22:46:26 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
| On Iau, 2003-05-08 at 20:32, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: | > 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. | | Current Red Hat supports naming interfaces by their mac address. That | keeps most people happy except some sparc and embedded users who have | one mac per host not per card (and yes that *is* allowed by the | 802.x spec)
Yep, found it in IEEE Std 802-2001. It's just not the recommended method for device address assignment.
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