Re: How to statically assign eth devices?

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I guess I shouldn't really care but .. try
	/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop
	/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start


http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2002-December/msg01137.html



Satish Balay (balay@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
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>On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Brian Johnson wrote:
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>> I think a modified version will work for you
>>
>> If you have a wifi card that uses the orinoco_cs driver for instance, you can use
>> alias eth0 orinoco_cs or eth1 or whatever you want it to be
>>
>> And use the same logic for your other nics
>>
>> You only run into problems if you insert multiple nics that use the same driver
>> where you want different configs (for that you have to look into profiles).
>>
>> For example, I also have an alias eth1 orinoco_cs in my /etc/modules.conf .. so if I
>> use ANY wifi card that uses the orinoco_cs driver, it will be eth1.  A second
>> matching wifi card would then be eth2 and so on (but realistically most users
>> wouldn't have more than two or three nics)
>
>Hmm.. I just tried the following:
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>1. remove network card drivers (e100 - pci wired, wvlan_cs - pcmcia wireless)
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>rmmod wvlan_cs
>rmmod e100
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>2. add the following entries to modules.conf
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>alias eth0 wvlan_cs
>alias eth1 e100
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>3. insert the drivers in the wrong order
>
>insmod e100
>insmod wvlan_cs
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>
>4. now e100 is eth0, and wvlan_cs is eth1. The assignment
>is in the order of detection - irrespective of the entry in modules.conf
>
>Satish
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