From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Geo. wrote:
> FWIW, windows does this too, it names them "local area connection
1", 2,
> 3, etc and if you don't uninstall it before you pull the card you have
> to edit the registry to get rid of the darn things. Oh and they are
> invisible if the card is not in the machine so you can only tell they
> are there by the number of the current one.
>

That's the one.



Bizarre how both linux & windows behave the same in their own sweet ways.



Adam

> Geo.
>
> "Ad"  wrote in message
> news:45e57460$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>>> Linux would benefit greatly by a beefing up of the GUI OS tools
>>>
>>
>> It's simple things such as this i.e. "Assign a name to a hardware
>> network device".
>>
>> At the mo if you change cards then it is likely you will not be able
>> to reuse the same eth name w/o all this messing which is simply silly.
>>
>> With the debians it's much much simpler but hey.
>>
>>
>> Adam
>

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