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[PLUG] Re: binding eth0 to a specific NIC
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On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Malcolm J Harwood wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 June 2005 12:07 pm, sean finney wrote:
>
> > *however*, when installing RHAS 4, the order is totally flip-flopped
> > and now the broadcoms show up as eth2/eth3. so my question is:
> > is there anyway from the kernel boot cmdline to specify the
> > preferred order for scanning these devices?
>
>
> Not on the kernel commandline as far as I know, but I had the same problem.
>
> If they use different drivers, you can use modules.conf:
>
> alias eth0 driver1
> alias eth1 driver2
> etc.
>
> If they aren't, you can specific which MAC address to bind an interface to in
> your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX files using
> "HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx".
>
> At least that works on my Mandrake boxes, I'm not sure how distribution
> specific it might be.
I can confirm that the above will work on el4 also.
Regards,
Tom Diehl tdiehl@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123@rogueind.com
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