From: Mike N. 

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:21:50 +0000, Ad
 wrote:

>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.

   Windows has the same problem, but generally people don't see it because
98% run DHCP.   If you host multiple IP addresses on a single NIC, those IP
addresses are bound to the NIC.  If the NIC fails, you're hosed - you have
to type in those IP addresses again by hand unless you poke around the
registry.

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