Frank Elsner wrote: >> > 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? But if you have two eth? devices, how would it know which was which? I agree with the suggested solution; but note that some moronic program in Fedora occasionally re-writes the ifcfg-ethX files in a particularly stupid way. -- 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
