==> Regarding Re: [Wlug] Specify which nic gets named eth0; Mike Leo <mleo963@yahoo.com> adds: mleo963> yes, but that will only assign the right mac to the wrong NIC. mleo963> eth0 will still be assigned to the "extra" nic port, not the one I mleo963> want. mleo963> but thanks for replying. Hmm, will an alias in /etc/modprobe.conf help, then? For example: alias eth0 tulip This will only work if the ethernet cards use different drivers, obviously. -Jeff mleo963> --- Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote:
==> Regarding [Wlug] Specify which nic gets named eth0; Mike Leo <mleo963@yahoo.com> adds:
mleo963> I have a RHAS4 2.6 kernel install with 6 NIC's. How do i tell it mleo963> which nic I want to be labeled eth0?
mleo963> specifically, i have 2 nics built into the mobo, and 2 dual port mleo963> addon cards.
mleo963> I want eth0 to be nic1 on the mobo, and eth1 to be nic2 on the mleo963> mobo.
mleo963> By default it is assigning those nics to eth4 and eth5.
You can specify a hardware address in the ifcfg-ethX scripts:
HWADDR=00:04:23:B3:B4:C3
-Jeff