On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:02:32 -0800 (PST) David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied:
> -----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. You mean like this? alias eth0 3c59x alias eth1 ne2k-pci This fails at boot currently, I do the ol' rmmod/insmod trick in rc.local and it works just great. I can fix it when I get off my butt and do so. But my rc.local trickery works and I don't have the motivation to get moving on it right now (neck pains, too much overtime, too many other things to tweak and play with). -- An NT server can be run by any idiot, and usually is. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
