At Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:32:28 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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 > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments