On Wed, 10 May 2006, Brian Millett wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:00 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Alan J. Gagne wrote:
I had a similar problem but not NM related when I
added two 1GB nics to a box that had a 100MB onboard nic.
I wanted the two 1GB nics to be eth0 and eth1 but
the onboard nic would always revert to eth0 on reboot.
I could bind them with system-config-network but could not
get them to stay ordered to my preference.
I added the aliases to modprobe.conf to solved this issue.
alias eth0 r8169
alias eth1 r8169
alias eth2 e100
I found that this trick did not work reliably. After enough reboots, the
device mapping would change in spite of the aliases. The initscripts
update in updates-testing will fix the problem once and for all.
man iftab
should show you what to do.
Interesting. I had a different way of forcing out-of-order detection of
interfaces when I needed it last year, but that didn't work reliably with
FC5 either.
*I* shoudn't have to do *anything* (unless I need a different order than
the default). It all should Just Work consistently from boot to boot.
There's a bug. It's fixed (or at least worked around) in the
updates-testing initscripts--check the changelog. Why that's still in
updates-testing and not yet in updates is beyond me. I installed it over
a month ago and I have had no problems with wandering interfaces since.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
