Hi Jeremy, > Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) wrote: > > Is there a way I can change this so that eth0/1 are the on-board > > ports? It will save me lots of headaches later. :) > > You are looking for udev. Udev will create names for devices > (USB drives, NICs, etc) > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml > http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
Thanks for the links--I took a look through this stuff, and though it's (very) nifty, it isn't quite what I want. This seems to only help if I have *one* machine that I want to rename my NICs on. I want my NICs to come up on *all* my servers: Motherboard (tg3) NICs first: eth0 & eth1 PCI (e1000) NICs second: eth2 & eth3 I can do this if I write udev rules for every separate server, and then on every new server I build I have to go change the udev rules to match the MAC addresses for that box. Not quite what I had in mind for this. Maybe /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 is what I want? If I put tg3 in there, it then loads tg3 before e1000, thus giving the tg3 interfaces eth0 & eth1. However, before I broadcast that change to all of my boxes, I want to be sure this isn't the wrong way of doing this. Thanks in advance! Best, --Glenn -- Glenn E. Sieb, MTS Bell Laboratories [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 732 949 5453 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
