How to bind a ethX network logical device to a specific network card adapter

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Dario Lesca (d.lesca at solinos.it) said:
>> Hi, On my up-to-date FC5 I have 3 network card:
>>
>>> 01:01.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
>>> 01:02.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
>>> 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
>>>
>> How to bind the eth0 logical device to 01:0b.0 physical device ?
>>
>> into /dev/modprobe.conf file I have this line:
>>
>>> alias eth0 r8169
>>> alias eth1 natsemi
>>> alias eth2 natsemi
>>>
>>
>> but this is not sufficient, when I reboot the machine,
>> some time the eth0 is bind to natsemi device and I must
>> change the network cable from Realtek to first NatSemi card
>
> Add the appropriate HWADDRs to the ifcfg-files.

And make sure you have at least initscripts-8.31.5-1.

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> Bill
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