Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:20:55 +0000 | From | Dale Amon <> | Subject | Re: A return to PCI ordering problems... |
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:03:23PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > FYI, if you care about the name of your ethernet device, your > configuration is probably broken. The IEEE station address can > be used to identify a device and it's accessible from `ifconfig` > without setting any network parameters. So, given this, you > can set any number of boards found, to anything you need to > configure, including complicated servers and routers, with a > simple shell-script.
I presume IEEE station address == MAC...
I haven't really much choice. I can't use modules for security reasons; I have to assign the motherboard MAC to eth0 because a commercial package we are installing licenses on the MAC address of eth0.
Ifconfig cannot, to my knowledge, swap the identify of eth0 and eth1. However I the iproute2 calls, if they are available, might do the trick. I will have to see.
The only thing I really have control over is the kernel itself, not the dist even.
Has the pci=reverse option been removed? That might have done the trick.
Also, I don't really see anything inherently wrong with being able to force some of these things at the boot command line.
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