Ubuntu
netcfg package

  1. Bug #56679
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 56679

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: edgy: eth0/1 assigned randomly on install

No, udev has no way of telling whether the device is wired or not.

Use /etc/iftab to force devices to have particular names: add lines like

 eth0 mac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx arp 1
 eth1 mac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx arp 1

These are written by the installer by default for the cards present when you install.