Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:33:43 +1100 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.1 swaps hardware addresses for ethernet cards |
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al goldstein wrote: > > I have 2 ether cards 59x (eth0) and 509 (eth1). I have been adding 509 > at boot in lilo.conf. Using this same config in 2.4.1 results in > the hardware addresses for the cards to be swapped. If I remove 509 from > Lilo I get the same result. Suggestions would be appreciated
If both drivers are statically linked into the kernel then I guess this is entirely dependent upon the linkage order of net/core/dev.o and drivers/net/3c59x.o.
If you make the drivers modular then you can force the order within your boot scripts.
If you make just one driver modular then that one will be "eth1".
You can grab Andi's "nameif" app which allows you to rename interfaces based on their MAC address, which will certainly put and end to the issue. I'm not sure whether this app is in net-tools yet.
Finally, you can wait until the Linux hotplug architecture is fully implemented, after which the naming order will be nicely randomised each time you boot :)
It's fun, isn't it?
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