Duane Clark wrote: >> I asked some time ago about the mapping of devices >> to interfaces eth0, eth1, etc, >> and received some lucid responses, >> particularly from Luciano Rocha, who wrote: >> ---------------------------------- >>> I'm puzzled by the device eth0 , etc, >>> chosen by different drivers. > > If they are using different drivers (I have an onboard ethernet chip > using the e1000 driver, and a plugin card using the tulip driver) then > you can force the initial assignment in the /etc/modprobe.conf file: > > alias eth1 e1000 > alias eth0 tulip Sadly this is not enough. I did in fact have the correct entries in modprobe.conf, but this did not force the drivers to use the correct interfaces.
