You might check out section 10.9 of this manual to see if it helps: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html
cheers, -Ted On Friday 28 January 2005 10:03, J�rg Ebeling wrote: > HiHo, > > I've a Tyan S4882 with a Broadcom Dual NIC controller on Board. > > The NIC module "tg3" loads so far but assigns the ethernet devices > (eth0/eth1) randomly to the NICs. > > First I thought it would be a noob problem but after parsing (nearly the > whole) google I still found no real solution. > > My hope in a i.e. "MAC address selection module option" is gone and I > saw/read that Dual NIC's seem to have that problem in general (ifup/down > says such stuff in the man page). > > The mapping solution which is proposed by ifupdown, doesn't makes me > happy too, because I need the ethernet device names later on in my > shorewall. Well it could be made via scripts and shorewall variables, > but it sounds like the wrong way for me. > > Any help/suggestions ?

