-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ABrady wrote:
>> >That's an interesting question... I have a RH7.1 server with three >> >3c59x NICs and upon a reboot, found that assignments had all changed. >> > It would be nice that it would stay consistant between reboots >> > (though the reboots and reassignments occur rarely). This >> > reassigments play havoc for a real-time shop like mine where >> > communication traffic from one network relys on the traffic comming >> > from the other network. Now upon rebooting, it is required for me >> > to check the eth's for proper assignments. smbinyon >> >> That is interesting, since I have two NIC cards, different brands, and >> when I have rebooted, nothing moved. > >And I have 4 different brands of NICs. Any combination in which I had 2 >of them would stay the same until I upgraded the kernel. They would then >switch ether postions. I finally swapped the cards in their slots and >had no more trouble with them until I went to 7.2 and back to 7.1 (still >using the same 2 NICs that were working fine for ages). I haven't gotten >around to fixing it yet, but no hurry. My kludge works fine under all >conditions. How about this in /etc/modules.conf: alias eth0 <modulename> alias eth1 <othermodulename> No ambiguity there. It's a little trickier if you have two cards that need the same module, but this command: /sbin/modprobe smc-ultra io=0x280,0x300 loads my SMC Ultras in a predictable order reliably. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp - -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA+AwUBPD0SX79BpdPKTBGtEQLXEQCXTkod3uJlMR326nWPebx/quRGFQCgh17X rd02w/XjydryxF00/V8uSAM= =mmLS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
