order of eth interfaces in SuSE 9.1

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Check /etc/modules.conf:

alias eth0 3c59x
alias eth1 e100

That works unless you are using the same nic's.  Then, you can check the
driver for a way to force it, or just figure out which comes up.  It
should always be the same because it's then based on PCI/ISA bus location.

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
| In the 9.2 SUSE-provided firewall, these long names are the ones used. I
| see that ifconfig does return the traditional eth0 name. That is most
| likely for compatibility with other software. My info is probably only
| valid on systems that use the new naming method.
|
| On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 10:51, Man-wai Chang wrote:
|
|>>In /etc/sysconfig/network, the config files are not named 'ifcfg-eth0'
|>>and the like. Mine is named ifcfg-eth-id-00:06:5b:a6:e5:9d, which tells
|>>me exactly which card it is. This will never change because of slot or
|>>driver load order changes. In YAST, the MAC address is provided so you
|>>know which you are configuring.
|>
|>but I don't understand how SuSE stores the connection between
|>ifcfg-eth-id-00:00:00:00:00 and eth0, ifcfg-eth-id-00:00:00:00:00:02 and
|>eth1. My firewall script relies on the output of ifconfig to work, which
|>identifies network card as eth0 and eth1, not eth-id-MAC-address.
|>
|>I wanted to know how SuSE worked out the ordering of
|>(eth-id-MAC-address1, eth-id-MAC-address2) and (eth0, eth1, ...)
|>
|>I hope I did make myself clear.
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