eth1 getting moved to eth0

[Bill Nottingham]

Michal Jaegermann (michal at harddata.com) said: 
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 03:27:51PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > 
> > Actually, if you do:
> > 
> > alias frobozz e100
> > 
> > and have:
> > 
> > DEVICE=frobozz
> > 
> > in the ifcfg file, the standard scripts will rename it to whatever
> > you like.
> 
> As long as this is not "eth0" or something like that... :-)
> 
> Thanks Bill.  It is good to know; although this seems to be
> one of those pieces of information which you can get only on
> some mailing list or from a deep study of all scripts coming
> into a play and there is quite a few of these with not always
> obvious interactions.

Hm, well, it's more that this is the default case, and that
naming the devices eth0/eth1/eth2 and having that renaming work
sort of falls out of it.

> That would suggest that OP could name his network interfaces,
> say, "wired" and "less" and they will keep these names regardless
> of an order in which corresponding modules are loaded.

Yes.

Bill