Still baffled by choice of ethx
Duane Clark
fpga at pacbell.net
Wed Sep 26 17:51:42 UTC 2007
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I asked some time ago about the mapping of devices
> to interfaces eth0, eth1, etc,
> and received some lucid responses,
> particularly from Luciano Rocha, who wrote:
> ----------------------------------
>> I'm puzzled by the device eth0 , etc,
>> chosen by different drivers.
If they are using different drivers (I have an onboard ethernet chip
using the e1000 driver, and a plugin card using the tulip driver) then
you can force the initial assignment in the /etc/modprobe.conf file:
alias eth1 e1000
alias eth0 tulip
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