Re: Why eth1 and not eth0 ?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 12:26 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> As a matter of interest, why has my NetworkManager
> started using eth1 in place of eth0, which it used to use?
> 
> Is there anywhere I can specify which device I want to use?
> 
> Is there in fact any configuration file for NM?
> I am running Fedora-6 with KDE,
> and am using knetworkmanager with NM.

NM will use whatever device name your device uses.  The device is named
by udev, and depends on initialization order in the kernel.  So the
problem is not really with NM, but with your distros kernel and/or udev
rules.  NM just uses what the system says the device is.

Dan