On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:32:29PM -0400, Juan Carlos Inostroza wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 13:20, Eve Atley wrote: > > Therefore, does Linux default to eth0 if an old configuration is removed? > > That's kudzu. He's a little grumpy sometimes ;-) > > Maybe editing /etc/modules.conf and changing the order of the modules > (by example, > > alias eepro100 eth0 > alias dmfe eth1 > > so, changing the order > > alias dmfe eth0 > alias eepro100 eth1 Safer way is to use nameif which maps MAC (hardware, Ethernet) address to interface name. "man nameif" will give you all answers. Note: I don't know if nameif exists in RH Linux but if the RedHat didn't packaged such basic Linux tools it is shame on them. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
