order of eth interfaces in SuSE 9.1

[Matthew Carpenter]

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I could be wrong, but I believe that is to *set* the MAC address on
cards..

Using Yast, you can try selecting the appropriate interface and naming
it eth0 (instead of ifcfg-eth-id-00:ad:....)  You'll notice the PCI
device ID in the ifcfg-eth0 file.  Perhaps that is enough.  Sorry, I'm
not depending upon that technology at the moment.  The only systems I
care about what NIC is what is on SuSE 8.2 and swapping the alias lines
seems to do the trick.

Bill Campbell wrote:
| On Tue, Feb 08, 2005, 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.
|
|
| Looking at the ifcfg.template file on a SuSE 9.2 system, there is a
| variable to specify MAC address.  I haven't tried changing the defaults on
| a 9.2 system yet, but I would hope the old naming conventions would still
| work (e.g. ifcfg-eth0, ifcfg-eth0:1, ...), largely because I've always set
| up IP aliases manually as I've never figured out how to do it with yast2.
|
| ...
|
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