Another Network Manager Stupidity: Swapping eth0 and eth1

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Alan J. Gagne wrote:

> I had a similar problem but not NM related when I
> added two 1GB nics to a box that had a 100MB onboard nic.
> I wanted the two 1GB nics to be eth0 and eth1 but
> the onboard nic would always revert to eth0 on reboot.
> I could bind them with system-config-network but could not
> get them to stay ordered to my preference.
>
> I added the aliases to modprobe.conf to solved this issue.
>
> alias eth0 r8169
> alias eth1 r8169
> alias eth2 e100

I found that this trick did not work reliably.  After enough reboots, the 
device mapping would change in spite of the aliases.  The initscripts 
update in updates-testing will fix the problem once and for all.

>
> Alan
>
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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