[CentOS] interfaces start-up order

Sun Jan 10 16:59:38 UTC 2010
JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com>

On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 17:43 +0100, David Hláčik wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> On my Centos5 interfaces start in this order :
> 
> eth0,eth1,eth2,ppp0
> 
> I believe it goes by alpabethical order.
> Is there a possibility to change this order? I want to start
> interfaces which connects to internet first , i.e. in order
> eth0,ppp0,eth1,eth2.
> Can I just rename ifcfg-* scripts in etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and
> change alphabetical order?
> 
> Thank you and Best Regards,
> David
Look in your /etc/rc.* directories.  To be honest your doing the reverse
of what every linux admin has asked for. (NIC Boot Ordering).

John