Under centos/redhat, I know I have seen a few that lock the MAC address to the specific eth device. It was part of a config file. Caused all kinds of annoyance when cloning machines and the mac would change and then the eth would be incremented and the network wouldn't come up.
I know that isn't a lot of help, but it might help point you somewhere. ----- Original Message ----- > Okay. Somewhat unique situation. I have two network cards in my old PC > (which talk to two different networks). I will be moving the PCI > ethernet card over to my new computer permanently. > > The default is for it to assign eth0 to the PCI card and eth1 to the > one on > the motherboard. > > I am currently getting the new(er) one configured, but I also can't > leave the old one down until I get the new one configured. It is a bit > time consuming to keep swapping the ethernet card between the > computers. (I > know get a new card, but I hope to have this finished by the time it > gets approved, ordered, shipped.) > > While I'm working on the new PC, it would be helpful if I could > reference the ethernet port on the motherboard as eth1 (even though > there is no > eth0)... > > I have googled. Found various solutions all pointing in different > directions, but everything I have tried so far has not worked. I think > things I have found so far are out of date. > > Haven't tried specifying it as kernel parameters yet, what I saw said > I needed to specify things like IRQ's (which I could find but... ><). > Any pointers for doing this in a modern Linux system? Is it possible > if there > is no eth0? > > openSUSE 12.3 > > Paul Boniol > > -- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] For more options, visit this > group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Steven Critchfield [email protected] -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
