Thus spake bert hubert: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:14:05PM -0700, John Telford wrote: > > I'm building routers. It's difficult to tell in advance which NIC will > > be assigned eth0 and which will assigned eth1 when using two NICs. Ping > > testing usually clears up this simple problem. > > > > The identification problem gets worse when adding a third NIC, after > > sorting out the first two NICs. Frequently the eth0 or eth1 assignments > > for the first two NICs change. > > There are tricks to configure based on the MAC address of your interface > instead of on its place in the probe. Perhaps googling on that will help.
A script to rename interfaces with "ip link ... set name ..." after modprobe according to their hw addresses should suffice. I never tried this because in my experience order of detection was always consistant between reboots assuming there are no hardware chasnges. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
