Dapper networking appears to be totally hosed

[Derek Broughton]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:

> Help me out here, people. I'm running Dapper, and I think
> the recent switch to udev for networking (that's what
> happened, right?) has totally hosed things.
> 
> First, my NICs are constantly changing back and forth:
> sometimes the wireless is eth1 and sometimes it's eth0. I
> suppose this depends on the order in which they come up, but
> it shouldn't, right: I thought that's what iftab(5) and
> ifrename(8) were all about; since my NICs' MAC addresses
> are listed in /etc/iftab, I thought my NICs' names would
> always be the same. The only times they seem to change are

/etc/iftab is part of ifrename - so I guess the important thing is to ensure
that you actually have ifrename installed.

> So what's going on? Why does networking appear to be totally
> screwed?

Well, I'm running a completely up-to-date Dapper (at least, as of yesterday)
and no problems, but I concede that it could possibly be that mine just
always come up in the same order (seems unlikely though - eth0 is a b44 and
they seem to take a couple of seconds to initialize, unlike the ipw2200 on
eth1).
-- 
derek