[Gllug] pci ethernet ordering

[David Abbishaw]

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.

Regards
David



Message: 10
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:54:09 +0000
From: John Hearns <john.hearns at streamline-computing.com>
Subject: Re: [Gllug] pci ethernet ordering
To: Greater London Linux User Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
Message-ID: <1108112049.6277.14.camel at Vigor11>
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On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 17:34 +0000, gllug at dormon.com wrote:
> Hello all
>
> Just a quickie, I stuck some new dual gig nic's in few dell 1650's
> yesterday, everything was going well and then in a moment of madness I
> thought "I know, why don't I run kudzu, and let it sort it out"

One of the less endearing features of Linux.
The numbering depends on the order in which the PCI bus is scanned at
boot time. So can change with versions of Linux.

I thought that there was a thread on this on the Beowulf list recently,
but can't find it.

On a RH system you can put the Mac address into ifcfg-ethx
as HWADDR=xxxxxxx
though this results, as you say, in nameif being used.

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