Dapper networking appears to be totally hosed



Help me out here, people. I'm running Dapper, and I think
the recent switch to udev for networking (that's what
happened, right?) has totally hosed things.

First, my NICs are constantly changing back and forth:
sometimes the wireless is eth1 and sometimes it's eth0. I
suppose this depends on the order in which they come up, but
it shouldn't, right: I thought that's what iftab(5) and
ifrename(8) were all about; since my NICs' MAC addresses
are listed in /etc/iftab, I thought my NICs' names would
always be the same. The only times they seem to change are
when Ubuntu is going through big changes, as it was during
Breezy development and as it is now for Dapper.

More importantly by far, I keep losing network connectivity
-- either I'm getting knocked totally offline, or I'm
getting such slow performance that it just *looks* like
nothing is happening; I can't tell. If I then do an
ifdown/ifup, I get back online for a short time. Then the
connection dies again. I've not followed it up, but I think
it may be the case that doing

1) ifdown
2) ifup
3) start downloading a very large file

will keep me online for longer: it's as though the large
file's download is holding something open that would
otherwise have closed.

So what's going on? Why does networking appear to be totally
screwed?

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