Gutsy and renumbered network interfaces?

[Derek Broughton]

Carsten Aulbert (list) wrote:

> Andreas Schildbach wrote:
>> Does anyone know why since a recent "apt-get dist-upgrade" on Gutsy my
>> Ethernet is now mapped to eth3 (was: eth0) and my WLAN to eth2 (was:
>> eth1)?
>> 
>> Is this a bug, or is it intentional?
>> 
Not really either...
> 
> I've seen something similar already in feisty, but maybe it's the same:
> 
> Please have a look at /etc/iftab if there is a wrong MAC address written
> in there? According to man 5 iftab you can force MAC address to eth?
> translation there.

Since well before feisty there has been no strict mapping of network
interfaces, and without /etc/iftab the ordering is semi-random.
-- 
derek