On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Matt Fahrner wrote: > But it sounds to me like the problem isn't that he can't specify which > ethernet to use, but rather he can't control the order which the modules > are loaded and thus which device becomes eth0 and which becomes eth1. > Without that he'll randomly pick up one device or another which may or > may not be the wrong ethernet card. > > Am I reading this right? > > - Matt > > Mark Oram wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I replied earlier today but accidentally sent it from the wrong > > address so it is still waiting to get approved by the moderator. > > > > You can do a 'ks ksdevice=eth1' at the boot prompt to specify to use > > DHCP over the eth1 interface (or whatever interface you specify.) > > but this does sound like it will solve the problem. i can try it with eth0. if that doesn't work, i'll try with eth1, and so on. *one* of them should eventually match the entry in the /etc/dhcpd.conf file. but this brings up a couple of obvious questions: 1) how *does* the recognition process determine which card becomes eth0, which one eth1 and so on? 2) is the algorithm from part 1) deterministic? rday
