On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:52:03 +0200 Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2007 10:30:32 Frank Elsner wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > I was using a self-compiled kernel 2.6.21, with eth0 and eth1 under FC6. > > > > After reboot with the identically configured kernel 2.6.21.5 the two > > interfaces got switched, eth0 was eth1 and eth1 was eth0. > > > > And my "/etc/modprobe.conf" contains > > > > alias eth0 natsemi > > alias eth1 8139too > > > > What's going on? And how to prevent this? > > > > What about giving a speficic MAC address to each one in > the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX > With the HWADDR=<MAC-address> directive. Ok, that maybe a solution. I'll try. But shouldn't the alias statements in "/etc/modprobe,conf" do the job? --Frank Elsner