[CLUG] network card id switching

[Michael James]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:40 pm, freegazer wrote:
>  when RH boots it re-orders the cards
>  (usually preferring to use the PCI nic as eth1 but not reliably).
>  this causes issues further down the track
>  as same apps require eth0
>  to be the onboard nic.

There are solutions to this (in SuSE land) that involve udev.
 and a file  /etc/udev/rules.d/30-net_persistent_names.rules

FWIW,
michaelj

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