FC5 - Forcing eth0 and eth1

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Warren Sturm wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 23:16 -0500, Gerry Doris wrote:
>> I have a working FC3 system with two nic's.  Eth0 is an intel nic and eth1
>> is a tulip nic.  This is the way they are recognized in FC3.
>>
>> In FC5 they come up reversed.  I would like to set them the same as FC3.
>> Where do I make this change?
>>
>
> In your modprobe.conf file:
> of course I made the assumption this is a 100Mb interface
>
> alias eth0 e100  or eepro100
> alias eth1 tulip

Due to an apparent bug in FC5 kernels, This may not be enough to ensure 
that the modules are loaded in the correct order.  Try adding to 
modprobe.conf (after the aliases):

install tulip /sbin/modprobe -q eth0; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install tulip

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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