Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
One issue that occurred when going from FC-5 to FC-6 on my desktop was
that the order of the 3 ethernet devices changed. This didn't really
cause a problem; I simply permuted the files
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth[012]. But I wondered: 1. What
caused this change? 2. Is there any simple way of ensuring that a
given device is say eth0?
You can use the HWADDR parameter in each ifcfg-eth[012] file to specify
the MAC address of the corresponding NIC. This keeps things stable
during normal operations.
If the cards are all the same, this situation can be a real bear during
installation. I guess that's a benefit to going gigabit for my internal
network. I left my "external card" as a 10/100 since that's plenty fast
enough to deal with the data rate from my ISP.
Cheers,
Dave
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