An elementary question on LANs

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On 07/15/2011 03:09 PM, Digimer wrote:
> On 07/15/2011 03:00 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> What exactly sets up the correspondence between interfaces and LANs,
>> eg (in my case) eth1 <-> 192.168.2.0 ?
>>
>> I don't see any file in /etc/sysconfig , say,
>> where this is specified.
> 
> It's mapped using 'HWADDR' in the
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX and/or in
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.
> 

  And in some machines (if not changed elsewhere somehow) biosdevname
may be used - I believe it is now included in F15 ...


   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming

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