[Gllug] pci ethernet ordering

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 10:25 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:56:34AM -0000, David wrote:
> > Can't you also use the alias command in /etc/modules.conf to control this,
> > something like:
> > 
> > alias eth0 pcnet32
> > 
> > Where pcnet32 is the name of the driver module.
> 
> That will not help where you have multiple nics of the same make.

Indeed. You can force naming by passing parameters to the kernel though.
I have one machine that has:-

ether=15,0x6a00,eth0 9,0x6900,eth1

passed to the kernel by LILO. If I was doing it now I'd probably go with
ifrename though, as MAC address is more fixed than anything else.

Mike.

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