On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote: > 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 don't actually need hwaddr in your ifcfg-* files -- though it's probably not a bad thing to have the MAC in there. [As Scott pointed out, it's all about what udev has in its rules.] > > You also have to look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules > +1 Yes, udev rules for network devices needs modified. > > (Learned that after cloning some VMs, where the hardware address was > wrong.) > And I did too after cloning a physical machine to newer hardware. ;-) > > -- > Scott Robbins > PGP keyID EB3467D6 > ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //