Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > Hi all, > > Can someone explain to me what controls the assignment of ethernet cards to > device numbers? > > My ethernet has always been eth0, until recently. After installing and > configuring another card (more on that later), that other card (a firewire > card, for which eth1394 ended up getting loaded) became eth0 and my real > ethernet card became eth1. > > But the system was still trying to access the internet over eth0, which cut > me > off from the world. I managed to use harddrake2 to reconfigure so that I got > internet access back via eth1. > > But even after eliminating the loading of the eth1394 module, my ethernet > card > is still eth1, and I can't get it to go back to being eth0. There's a line in > my /etc/modprobe.conf like this: > > alias eth0 via-rhine > > This somehow got changed to eth1, but editing it back to eth0 doesn't fix it. > > What I want is some way to lock my ethernet card to always and forever be > eth0, so that adding other cards won't break my system. Anyone know how to do > this? > > Any hints at all about how to fix this? Or about how these numbers are even > assigned. Oh, I'm on 2006. > > Ron
Look at /etc/iftab this is where things are assigned ie interface to MAC HTH Pete ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
