I have a three clusters of boxes, all identical hardware except the # of ethernet cards. Some have 1 (onboard eepro100), some have two, some have 3 (all eepro 100s). All I want is eth0 to be the same card on all three, eth1 to be the same on those that have it, and eth2 to be the 3rd. Consistency is all I'm asking for. I'm happy to place the second and third cards in the correct pci slot order so that they order correctly. I just need the main card (on the motherboard) to _always_ be eth0. It makes no sense to have it jump around as I add more NICs. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu