On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:20:45PM +0530, anupam chomal wrote:
> I am trying to set up a linux box with 5 N/W cards of which one is
> 10/100/1000T and the others are 10/100T. I connected all the cards and
> turned on the machine. I wanted to force eth0 to be the 1000T cards but
> the cards get allotted eth0 to eth4 randomly. Is there some way wherein I
> can force my 1000T card to be eth0.
You can also create an alias for the device driver. I'm not that
well-versed in the various distribution and kernel version differences,
but this is how I do it.
If running a 2.4 kernel, edit /etc/modules.conf (or if running Debian,
edit /etc/modutils/alias, and afterward run update-modules) and add
alias eth0 <driver name>
where <driver name> is the name of the device driver module for your
gigabit card, say, e1000. If running 2.6, add the same line to
/etc/modprobe.d/aliases . A reboot afterward may do the trick if you
don't have an update-modules command that will get the right aliases
going.
Hope that helps.
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