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
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Glenn E. Sieb, MTS
Bell Laboratories
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