Hi,
I noticed that one of out "Centos 5" servers with an onboard "Marvell 88E8001" was showing some packet overruns.
# ifconfig -a eth0 | grep "RX p" RX packets:1629537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:3694 frame:0
So I thought about using a driver from "elrepo" the lspci id's suggest to install the "kmod-sk98lin" driver. I yum installed the kernel module and on reboot found the server was still using the old "skge" driver.
ethtool -i eth0 driver: skge version: 1.6
Looking at modprobe.conf shows
# cat /etc/modprobe.conf | grep eth0 alias eth0 skge
[1] Should I just change the "skge" in the above line to "sk98lin" and reboot?
[2] This motherboard has a "Marvell 88E8052" as a second NIC, currently disbled in the BIOS. Problem is that the "88E8001" NIC has to be "eth0" as it is the one used in a "flexlm" license server file. In Centos five how can you *force* a given NIC controller to always post at "eth0" ?
Cheers, Steve