On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 21:21 +0000, Timothy Murphy 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? AFAICS the order in which kudzu scanned the PCI bus dictates the order of ethernet devices in ifcfg-ethX. > 2. Is there any simple way of ensuring that a given device is say eth0? No that I'm aware of. - Gilboa
