i found something on that here http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0004.1/0018.html On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 08:04, Keith Morse wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Rick von Richter wrote: > > > I have a box with 8 ethernet ports in it. Upon install, Linux seems to > > randomly assign ethX labels to the ports. How can I reassign eth0 to > > eth4 and so on? > > I believe it is based on pci slot order. You also might be able to tweak > /etc/modules.conf to customize the assignment that the kernel makes when > loading the modules. > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
