Ethernet Probe Order 2006-01-05 - By Ed Wilts
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On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:24:56PM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> > I am curious, as I have googled this to death, how to force a system to
> > have the motherboard card be eth0 and eth1.
>
> "The system" does not follow this sensible order (ascending by
> PCI device number.) It's been a requested "enhancement"
> for over 1.5 years.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121860
Really, this enhancement request should be closed since the
functionality has been there for a long time...
Probing the interfaces in any order is as wrong for Ethernet cards as it
is for disk drives. It's why we have labels for disk volumes and HWADDR
settings in the ifcfg sripts.
.../Ed
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