Gutsy and renumbered network interfaces?

[Derek Broughton]

Wenzhuo Zhang wrote:

> I filed a bug about it the other day.
> 
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120806
> 
> According to the developer, /etc/iftab is deprecated. But still, the new
> persistent net udev rules seems to be rather buggy. The only NIC in my
> NIC is named eth2 in Feisty, while eth0 and eth1 are for non-existent
> e1000 cards.
> 

But my understanding is that it's deprecated because network tools really
shouldn't need to know which interface is which.  I ran for two years with
eth0 and eth1 flipping around without caring.  And of course "deprecated"
is not a synonym of "removed".
-- 
derek