[CentOS] ethernet card name eth1 randomly changes

William L. Maltby BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Mon Jul 31 19:55:02 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 15:48 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 14:14 -0400, QKnoX List Subscriptions wrote:
> > <snip>

> IIRC, this is a common problem when multiple NICs are in place. IIRC,
> one way is to include params in /etc/modules.conf (used to be - now
> modprob.conf?). But an easier way, I think is to modify
> 
>    /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0/
> 
> to include something like
> 
>   HWADDR=00:01:80:3B:58:A9
> 
> replacing the hexidecimal numbers with the MAC address of your card.
> 
> I think this new-fangled GUI stuff has a way to do it with a panel.

BTW, this is the same file I now see is mentioned in the other posts.
They are hard-linked.

> <snip>

-- 
Bill
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