Re: How to bind a ethX network logical device to a specific network card adapter

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Dario Lesca (d.lesca@xxxxxxxxxx) said:
> > Hi, On my up-to-date FC5 I have 3 network card:
> >
> > > 01:01.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
> > > 01:02.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
> > > 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
> > How to bind the eth0 logical device to 01:0b.0 physical device ?
> >
> > into /dev/modprobe.conf file I have this line:
> >
> > > alias eth0 r8169
> > > alias eth1 natsemi
> > > alias eth2 natsemi
> >
> > but this is not sufficient, when I reboot the machine,
> > some time the eth0 is bind to natsemi device and I must
> > change the network cable from Realtek to first NatSemi card
>
> Add the appropriate HWADDRs to the ifcfg-files.

And make sure you have at least initscripts-8.31.5-1.

> Bill

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