eth0/eth1 switched ?

[Frank Elsner]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:52:03 +0200 Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
> 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.

Ok, that maybe a solution. I'll try.

But shouldn't the alias statements in "/etc/modprobe,conf" do the job?



--Frank Elsner