Gilboa Davara 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. In this case kudzu must scan the PCI bus in a strange order, as the card which was given the eth0 slot appears as 00.09.0 on the bus (according to lspci) while the card given the eth1 slot appears as 00.07.0. > >> 2. Is there any simple way of ensuring that a given device is say eth0? > > No that I'm aware of. Actually, I found the advice to give the MAC address as HWADDRESS= in ifcfg-eth? did the job, as I should have said before. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
