Jerry Geis wrote:
I am using centos 5 x86_64 AMD64 X2 4200+. I am current on yum update.
My machine has two ethernet cards. e1000 (eth0) and forcedeth (eth1)
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How can I get this connection to RELIABLY come up each time as eth0 is e1000 and eth1 is forcedeth
Thanks,
Jerry
From the RHEL4 docs (also applicable to C5): http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/ref-guide/s1-net...
HWADDR=<MAC-address>, where <MAC-address> is the hardware address of the Ethernet device in the form AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF. This directive is useful for machines with multiple NICs to ensure that the interfaces are assigned the correct device names regardless of the configured load order for each NIC's module. This directive should /not/ be used in conjunction with MACADDR.
You can get the mac address from running ifconfig. The HWADDR setting goes in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (and ifcfg-eth1) files. (the setting either doesn't exist, or may be transposed and causing your problems)
-Shawn