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<DIV><FONT size=2>I believe the HWADDR assigns a particular MAC address to the
card, if I not wrong.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I do not know an easy way for it to decide to load the device
based on the mac addr ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Sameer.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=rstevens@vitalstream.com href="mailto:rstevens@vitalstream.com">Rick
Stevens</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=dhoffman2004@gmail.com
href="mailto:dhoffman2004@gmail.com">David Hoffman</A> ; <A
title=fedora-list@redhat.com href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">For users of
Fedora Core releases</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 07, 2005 2:25
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: assignment of eth*
devices</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>David Hoffman wrote:<BR>> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:06:28 -0500
(EST), William Hooper<BR>> <<A
href="mailto:whooperhsd3@earthlink.net">whooperhsd3@earthlink.net</A>>
wrote:<BR>> <BR>>>David Hoffman said:<BR>>><BR>>>>On
Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:21:46 -0500, Sameer Kamat <<A
href="mailto:sameer@unitrends.com">sameer@unitrends.com</A>><BR>>>>wrote:<BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>>>Hi,<BR>>>>>Would
anyone know how to force the system to assign a
specific<BR>>>>>network card a specific eth device. Is there a
file/ setting that can be<BR>>>>>adjusted to force this
operation.?<BR>>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>>I had this
problem with my system. I wanted to use my
100-base-T<BR>>>>connection for the link to the router, but wanted my
Gigabit connection for<BR>>>>the LAN side. But when I did the
install, they were reversed.<BR>>><BR>>>I really think for that
example that swapping the cables would be the<BR>>>easiest
solution.<BR>>><BR>> <BR>> <BR>> I hope that was meant to be
humerous.<BR>> <BR>> Swapping cables is one thing, but what about having
to go into any of<BR>> a dozen places in your system and swapping eth0 with
eth1?<BR>> Some of us have developed pretty elaborate firewall rules, not
to<BR>> mention many other configurations that point to particular
interfaces.<BR>> Maybe if this was a brand new installation that might
work, but not in<BR>> all cases.<BR><BR>Have you tried using the "HWADDR="
bit in the ifcfg-ethx
scripts?<BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>-
Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer <A
href="mailto:rstevens@vitalstream.com">rstevens@vitalstream.com</A> -<BR>-
VitalStream,
Inc.
<A href="http://www.vitalstream.com">http://www.vitalstream.com</A>
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