On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:20:49AM +0100, Steve Brooks wrote: > On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Markus Falb wrote: > > > > > On 02.Sep.2013, at 22:14, Steve Brooks wrote: > > > >> [2] This motherboard has a "Marvell 88E8052" as a second NIC, currently > >> disbled in the BIOS. Problem is that the "88E8001" NIC has to be "eth0" as > >> it is the one used in a "flexlm" license server file. In Centos five how > >> can you *force* a given NIC controller to always post at "eth0" ? > > > I think that setting HWADDR in ifcfg-eth0 should do the trick. You also have to look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules (Learned that after cloning some VMs, where the hardware address was wrong.) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6