order of eth interfaces in SuSE 9.1

[Roger Oberholtzer]

In suse9.2 (I do not know about 9.1) the cards are now known as
eth-MAC_ADDRESS. The earlier ethX names are still there. But the longer
names are the preferred name to use. This way you need not care about
slot or driver load order.


On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 20:36, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> I just solved this problem for my own servers. I'm not familiar with Suse, but 
> I imagine it's the same as with Debian. The netbase package provides 
> the /etc/network/interfaces file which provides the configuration details for 
> the ifup & ifdown commands. One of the options for an interface is:
> 
>  hwaddress "class address "
>   Hardware Address. class is one of ether, ax25, ARCnet or netrom. address is
>   dependent on the above choice.
> 
> Once you determine the hardware address of each of your network cards, just 
> edit the interfaces file to tie a particular interface (eth0, eth1, ...) to a 
> particular card.
> 
> Check man:interfaces for details.
> 
> HTH
> 
> cmr
> 
> On Monday 07 February 2005 04:40 am, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> > how could I manually control the numbering of ethernet interfaces in
> > SuSE 9.1?
> >
> > It's not like COL 3.1. There is no ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1, but
> > ifcfg-eth-id-xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx where the xx:s are the mac address.
> > Automatic detection is good, but it may affect my iptables script if the
> > network interfaces were not fixed.