Renumbering interfaces manually?

Miskell, Craig Craig.Miskell at agresearch.co.nz
Wed Mar 21 00:08:39 UTC 2007


> I reimaged an old RH9 box as RHEL4.  Unfortunately, the 
> devices were detected in a non optimal order. (The interface 
> I need to be eth0 is eth2.)  Is there a simple way to force 
> these to load as a specific device#?  If not it's not a big 
> deal, but it would save some headaches.
In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX, set HWADDR to the mac
address of the physical interface you want to use for that particular
logical interface.

Craig Miskell
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