Try to comment out 2 NICs from /etc/modprobe.conf and load these 2 NICs from /etc/rc.d/rc.local leilei175@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > hi > thanks for your suggestion. > I have tried to find information from the man page.However I'm not > able to find the answer to this. > According to the man page we can write rules like this to rename the > network interface > KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:12:34:fe:dc:ba", NAME="eth0″ > in which the 00:12:34:fe:dc:ba is the MAC address of the NIC. > > the default directory containing udev rules is /etc/udev/rules.d,but I > can't find any file containing rules about "eth" naming.the lspci > result of the box is always the same,but the NIC order is kept > changing. > > > 2008/1/3, Allen Chen <achen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> man udev will help >> >> Allen >> >> >> leilei175@xxxxxxxxx 写道: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have some question about the network device naming mechanism in >>> enterprise Linux5. >>> On my box with 2 on-board network interface and another 2 intel >>> network interface,the order of these four interfaces will change from >>> time to time.I mean sometimes the 2 on-board are eth0 eth1,sometimes >>> they are eth1 eth2. >>> >>> I know I can use MAC address to fix the order.I'm just curious about >>> how could the order change boot by boot without any modification on >>> configuration or hardware. >>> >>> could any one give some suggestion? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> redhat-list mailing list >> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >> >> > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list