Doug Coats spake the following on 8/13/2007 11:38 AM:
I am new to CentOS (coming from Fedora) and I really like it!
I am having difficulty getting one of my machines to boot and assign the same designation of eth0 and eth1 to the same nics consistantly.
I have an MSI motherboard with 2 nics on the board. Strangely enough both nics report the same MAC address. This is not an issue since I use the computer to route between two different subnets so they don't see each other on the network.
The problem comes when I reboot and they race against each other to see which one will get to be eth0. If they switch my routing dies and I loose access with out rebooting and hoping they switch back or switching the actual cables.
I have googled and searched my networking resources but all of the fixes that I have found focus on using the MAC address to solve the problem but in my case they are the same.
The only difference is that they use different drivers. One is a Realtek and other is a Marvell.
I have turned off Kudzu or they reconfigured every time a booted the machine. It only happens every once in a while but I need it to be consistent.
Any suggestions or pushes in the right direction would be most appreciated.
Doug Coats
Is the boards bios up to date? Do you have the proper alias entries in /etc/modprobe.conf?