Order of interfaces in /proc/net/dev

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 15:10 -0300, Paulo Estrela wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Anybody knows which define the order of interfaces listed in
> /proc/net/dev? I'm using snmp to monitor my servers and when I use
> snmpwalk to list server's intefaces I see that eth0 is not interface
> 2, but interface 3. Interface 2 is eth2. Chating with people form
> net-snmp project they said that snmp interface order is bound to
> /proc/net/dev interface order, but which define interface order in
> this pseudo-file? In my system, /proc/net/dev looks like this:
> 
> Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
>  face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed
> multicast|bytes    packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
>     lo:  184435     943    0    0    0     0          0         0
> 184435     943    0    0    0     0       0          0
>   eth2:50383811  207869    0    0    0     0          0         0
> 21556871  148301    0    0    0     0       0          0
> eth1:       0       0    0    0    0     0          0         0
> 0      20    0    0    0     0       0          0
> 
> 
> -- 
> Thanks everyone,
> 
> Paulo Estrela
> 
I am not an expert in this, but the answer might be
in  /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules  if you are using Ubuntu
7.10, Gutsy Gibbon

good luck,

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