At Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:32:28 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
centos 5 had modprobe.conf entries for eth0 and if present eth1. something like: alias eth0 forcedeth alias eth1 e1000e
For the new centos 6 (I have the rhel 6 client installed on my laptop) the modprobe.conf file is gone. Which is fine. I understand files can be created in /etc/modprobe.d and server the same purpose.
My question is I dont see (doing a grep) any eth0 alias's in the files in /etc/modprobe.d/*
My reason is when I have a system with 2 ethernet cards I used to have to specify the order of loading. Like: install e1000e /sbin/modprobe forcedeth; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install e1000e
So I used to grep for eth0 and eth1 do get the module names from modprobe.conf.
You should specify the MAC address of the NIC in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX like this:
HWADDR=90:E6:BA:74:E5:E6
This is the proper way to do it since at least CentOS 5. Also works in
Since at least RH 7.3 actually...
case you use 2 NICs that use the same driver.
HTH, Deyan