eth0/eth1 switched ?

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

On Friday 15 June 2007 10:30:32 Frank Elsner wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I was using a self-compiled kernel 2.6.21, with eth0 and eth1 under FC6.
>
> After reboot with the identically configured kernel 2.6.21.5 the two
> interfaces got switched, eth0 was eth1 and eth1 was eth0.
>
> And my "/etc/modprobe.conf" contains
>
> alias eth0 natsemi
> alias eth1 8139too
>
> What's going on? And how to prevent this?
>

What about giving a speficic MAC address to each one in 
the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX
With the HWADDR=<MAC-address> directive.


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