Timothy Murphy wrote:
I asked some time ago about the mapping of devices to interfaces eth0, eth1, etc, and received some lucid responses, particularly from Luciano Rocha, who wrote: ----------------------------------I'm puzzled by the device eth0 , etc, chosen by different drivers.
If they are using different drivers (I have an onboard ethernet chip using the e1000 driver, and a plugin card using the tulip driver) then you can force the initial assignment in the /etc/modprobe.conf file:
alias eth1 e1000 alias eth0 tulip