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I believe the HWADDR assigns a particular MAC address to the
card, if I not wrong.
I do not know an easy way for it to decide to load the device
based on the mac addr ?
Thanks,
Sameer.
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Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:25
PM
Subject: Re: assignment of eth*
devices
David Hoffman wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:06:28 -0500
(EST), William Hooper
> <whooperhsd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
>>David Hoffman said:
>>
>>>On
Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:21:46 -0500, Sameer Kamat <sameer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>Would
anyone know how to force the system to assign a
specific
>>>>network card a specific eth device. Is there a
file/ setting that can be
>>>>adjusted to force this
operation.?
>>>>
>>>
>>>I had this
problem with my system. I wanted to use my
100-base-T
>>>connection for the link to the router, but wanted my
Gigabit connection for
>>>the LAN side. But when I did the
install, they were reversed.
>>
>>I really think for that
example that swapping the cables would be the
>>easiest
solution.
>>
>
>
> I hope that was meant to be
humerous.
>
> Swapping cables is one thing, but what about having
to go into any of
> a dozen places in your system and swapping eth0 with
eth1?
> Some of us have developed pretty elaborate firewall rules, not
to
> mention many other configurations that point to particular
interfaces.
> Maybe if this was a brand new installation that might
work, but not in
> all cases.
Have you tried using the "HWADDR="
bit in the ifcfg-ethx
scripts?
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