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 at 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. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- My Carpenter has a 1956 VW Beetle. He still can go to any place in Australia, use any Oil, spark plugs, pertol, tires, wiper blades, etc available today with a car that old. If only software would be like that. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jobst at barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia