Yeah, but that has an advantage!
After you plug in the USB-nic you can do an ifconfig and immediately know the HW address ... make up an "ifcfg-ethX" for that ... plug in the next one ... ifconfig ... make up an "ifcfg-ethx" for that one and so on.
I use this method to tap into bridged adsl connections, VOIP interfaces etc ...
jobst
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:10:18AM -0500, Les Mikesell (lesmikesell@gmail.com) wrote:
On 4/15/2010 10:32 AM, Fernando Gleiser wrote:
in the olden days it was so easy, you had PCI cards and they were named by the slot number, starting with eth0 in PCI slot 1 and so on. Then came the inbuilt nics Then came the PCIx built nics Then came the PCI-e built nics
OUCH! ;-)
Then came blade servers with built-in nics you can't unplug because they're plugged to the blade center enclosure's internal switches :)
Worse, and probably more to the point of non-deterministic hardware detection, you can plug in a USB->ethernet adapter anytime or several in any order.
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