eth0 missing - Dapper counts from eth1 to eth3

[Gilles Gravier]

Hehe... but haven't you just found something that it breaks?

Gilles

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Gilles Gravier wrote:
>
>   
>> And your /etc/iftab should contain lines like :
>>
>> etho mac 00:40:F4:A4:CF:8F
>>
>> And if you have those, then they will map properly, and always, to what
>> you expect.
>>     
>
> Were you responding to me?  If not why quote me?  If you were, you seem to
> have missed the point.  My system is handling the randomness of the
> interface assignments just fine.  The only issue so far was fetchmail,
> which was originally skipping some servers if eth1 wasn't up.  That's just
> a by-product of not being able to access those servers from behind a
> corporate firewall, and relying on eth0 wasn't the correct method, anyway
> (because it meant that I wouldn't get mail if I plugged in to a wired
> network anywhere else, either).
>
> I intend to leave /etc/iftab off my system until such time as I find
> something it really breaks.
>   

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