Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > To avoid such name collisions, we name our devices lanN; we use the > HWADDR configuration parameter to specify the MAC address of the device > that should be bound to a particular device name, e.g., > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lan0: > DEVICE=lan0 > HWADDR=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee > ... Thanks. I'll see first if setting HWADDR works. If it doesn't I'll try your recipe ...