assignment of eth* devices
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Feb 8 02:42:34 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 14:55 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> David Hoffman wrote:
> > I have tried making the swap in the modprobe.conf file and had no luck
> > with it. After reboot, it came back the same way. This was with two
> > different nics.
>
> Hmmm... strange. This worked for me, every time (although, last time I
> actually used it was Red Hat 7.3 system). Don't remember if I also did
> "depmod -a" after editing the file.
>
RH7 did not automatically create the HWADDRESS line in ifcfg-eth0. FC3
does.
> Looking at Fedora machines, seems that HWADDR setting is placed in
> default auto-generated ifcfg-ethX files. Maybe this is the reason it
> hasn't worked for you (what happens if you don't have HWADDR line in
> ifcfg-ethX file?).
>
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