order of eth interfaces in SuSE 9.1

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>In the 9.2 SUSE-provided firewall, these long names are the ones used. I
>see that ifconfig does return the traditional eth0 name. That is most
>likely for compatibility with other software. My info is probably only
>valid on systems that use the new naming method.

Looking at the ifcfg.template file on a SuSE 9.2 system, there is a
variable to specify MAC address.  I haven't tried changing the defaults on
a 9.2 system yet, but I would hope the old naming conventions would still
work (e.g. ifcfg-eth0, ifcfg-eth0:1, ...), largely because I've always set
up IP aliases manually as I've never figured out how to do it with yast2.

...

Bill
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