Still baffled by choice of ethx

[Timothy Murphy]

Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:

> To avoid such name collisions, we name our devices lanN; we use the
> HWADDR configuration parameter to specify the MAC address of the device
> that should be bound to a particular device name, e.g.,
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lan0:
> DEVICE=lan0
> HWADDR=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee
> ...

Thanks.
I'll see first if setting HWADDR works.
If it doesn't I'll try your recipe ...