Bart Schaefer wrote: > On 8/13/07, Doug Coats <dcoatshca at gmail.com> wrote: >> 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 posted something about this back on April 25, > Message-ID: <6bb609560704250801y6efe4ec1gbc513ea4f34d5721 at mail.gmail.com> > > What I said then was: > > -------- > The problem (as I recall) is that on each reboot the onboard NICs are > being discovered in a different order, so the MAC addresses in > /etc/sysconfig/hwconf don't match what is recorded in > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*. > > I believe what I had to do (I should have written it down, damn it) > was hand-edit /etc/sysconfig/hwconf to completely remove all the > references to the NICs (there may be more than one entry for each NIC > because of the flip-flopping), edit ifcfg-eth* to remove all > references to HWADDR, reboot again to let the cards be rediscovered, > and then again hand-edit ifcfg-eth* to insert HWADDR lines that match > the device assignments in the regenerated /etc/sysconfig/hwconf. > > However, I may have at least the last step of that wrong. > -------- > > No one ever responded as to whether that solution worked for them. Did you try taking out the HWADDR lines in the ifcfg-eth* scripts completely, and putting alias eth0 xxx alias eth1 yyy in /etc/modules.conf where xxx and yyy are the modules for the respective nics? That should have worked in older versions, but I'm not sure if it still does. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com