On 04/09/09 21:38, Peter Magnusson wrote: >> That problem has been long dealt with. Use HWADDR in ifcfg-* to >> statically bind physical interfaces. > > Tried that. > Didnt work. are you saying that specifying the hwaddr still got you wrong device name allocations ? I find that quite hard to believe, unless you are doing some wierd bridging stuff and the nic's are not really using physical devices. a bit more info about your setup would be good. on a usual machine, with usual nic's - I've never heard of hwaddr allocations going walkabout. ever. - KB