Forcing Linux to recognize NICS in BIOS order

[Jerry Feldman]

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 4:34 pm, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> This "persistent naming" issue gained importance as
> interconnect technologies like SCSI, FibreChannel,
> USB, PCMCIA and HotPlug PCI (to name a few) made it
> possible for physical configurations to change from run
> to run or even on the fly.  Addressing this issue was
> one of the goals of udev.  I guess I need to read up
> on udev, though, because I didn't think it would apply
> in this case of network interfaces, since they have not
> (traditionally) been accessed via filesystem entries (i.e.
> you don't typically refer to something like /dev/eth0 when
> manipulationg your network connections) yet I saw a mention
> of udev earlier in this thread.  Anybody care to elaborate?
Take a look /etc/udev/rules.d/30-net_persistent_names.rules (at least on 
SuSE 10.0)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{address}=="00:11:85:f4:80:1e", 
IMPORT="/sbin/rename_netiface %k eth0"

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