order of eth interfaces in SuSE 9.1

[Man-wai Chang]

> In /etc/sysconfig/network, the config files are not named 'ifcfg-eth0'
> and the like. Mine is named ifcfg-eth-id-00:06:5b:a6:e5:9d, which tells
> me exactly which card it is. This will never change because of slot or
> driver load order changes. In YAST, the MAC address is provided so you
> know which you are configuring.

but I don't understand how SuSE stores the connection between 
ifcfg-eth-id-00:00:00:00:00 and eth0, ifcfg-eth-id-00:00:00:00:00:02 and 
eth1. My firewall script relies on the output of ifconfig to work, which 
identifies network card as eth0 and eth1, not eth-id-MAC-address.

I wanted to know how SuSE worked out the ordering of 
(eth-id-MAC-address1, eth-id-MAC-address2) and (eth0, eth1, ...)

I hope I did make myself clear.


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