assignment of eth* devices

[Sameer Kamat]

I believe the HWADDR assigns a particular MAC address to the card, if I not wrong.
I do not know an easy way for it to decide to load the device based on the mac addr ?

Thanks,
Sameer.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rick Stevens 
  To: David Hoffman ; For users of Fedora Core releases 
  Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:25 PM
  Subject: Re: assignment of eth* devices


  David Hoffman wrote:
  > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:06:28 -0500 (EST), William Hooper
  > <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote:
  > 
  >>David Hoffman said:
  >>
  >>>On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:21:46 -0500, Sameer Kamat <sameer at unitrends.com>
  >>>wrote:
  >>>
  >>>
  >>>>Hi,
  >>>>Would anyone know how to force the system to assign a specific
  >>>>network card a specific eth device. Is there a file/ setting that can be
  >>>>adjusted to force this operation.?
  >>>>
  >>>
  >>>I had this problem with my system. I wanted to use my 100-base-T
  >>>connection for the link to the router, but wanted my Gigabit connection for
  >>>the LAN side. But when I did the install, they were reversed.
  >>
  >>I really think for that example that swapping the cables would be the
  >>easiest solution.
  >>
  > 
  > 
  > I hope that was meant to be humerous.
  > 
  > Swapping cables is one thing, but what about having to go into any of
  > a dozen places in your system and swapping eth0 with eth1?
  > Some of us have developed pretty elaborate firewall rules, not to
  > mention many other configurations that point to particular interfaces.
  > Maybe if this was a brand new installation that might work, but not in
  > all cases.

  Have you tried using the "HWADDR=" bit in the ifcfg-ethx scripts?
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