On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 13:17 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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. Yep. I usually just manually edit the ifcfg-ethX config files and set the HWADDR/DEVICE by hand, forcing fedora to use -my- order. - Gilboa
