On Thu, 17 May 2007 14:20:33 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a motherboard with two identical (apart from the MAC addresses > of course) ethernet interfaces. The two MAC addresses are consectutively > numbered; XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:34 and XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:35. > > On most reboots, the interface with the 34 MAC address becomes eth2 > and the other becomes eth3, but very occasionally they get swapped > around which rather screws things up. > > Is there any way to lock a MAC address to an interface name? >
There certainly is, though it varies on distro. In debian/ubuntu, you put a hwaddress entry into the interfaces line. e.g. iface eth0 inet static address 10.206.60.107 netmask 255.255.0.0 gateway 10.206.100.250 hardware XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:34 I'm fairly sure the same type of thing applies in the ifcfg-XXX world of redhat derivatives greeno -- Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
