Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:49:16 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering |
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On Aug 2 2007 12:42, Herbert Rosmanith wrote: > >hu. where are the days when eth0 was eth0 ...
If you and/or your distribution accidentally or incidentally loaded modules in the wrong order (which may happen in e.g. parallel-running boot scripts), you suddenly have eth0 as eth1. Or, when you changed the PCI slots (i.e. swapped cards around), eth0 would also suddenly become a different one. There never *were* days when eth0 remained eth0 across such changes.
>which translates: > > "Haha, that's randy, that's like in Windows, which > notices that you've got a new mainboard"
In Linux, the user recognizes he got himself a new mainboard, e.g. when the IDE chip changed and the new module is not in the initrd.
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