Re: Re-ordering default Vortex/Cyclone eth{x} assignments (again)

Xose Vazquez Perez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Ruggiero wrote:

> Okay, I feel I may be beating a dead horse here, but I'm still confused. 
> I've got a system with 4 NICs; two are 3c905Bs and two are 3c900s. I simply 
> want to reverse the names assigned to the cards that are currently being 
> assigned names eth2 and eth1 (long story; can't just swap cables, and am 
> NOT using modules because this is a static kernel for a firewall). These 
> two particular cards are consistently addressed at ioports 0xA000 and 
> 0xA400, with IRQs 10 and 4 respectively; none of which I need to change - I 
> *just* want to assign them different eth{X} names than they're getting now.

with nameif it is possible:
http://www.osdlab.org/newsletters/newsletter_2003_apr.html#4enet

regards,
-- 
Software is like sex, it's better when it's bug free.

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