Re: Ethernet probe assignment order?

Late, but thanks for your help here. Looks like the engineers involved 
have solved the problem. I guess I'll start having to look at what the 
other lists offer instead...

Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006  Matt Fahrner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> This may not be the right group, but someone can probably answer it here
>  > (nor is it clear what the right group would be)...
>> Anyway, provided you're feeling charitable, does anyone know if there a
>> graceful way to force Linux to assign multiple ethernets that use the
>> same driver to a specific instance of "ethX". For instance, say if you
>> had multiple BMC ethernet controllers of the same type (or even a
>> multiport card) and wanted to make sure a specific port was "eth0",
>> another was "eth1", etc.
>>
>> From what I can Google, the answer is either "no", or you can do it
>> through LILO/Grub "ether=" parameters. Neither answer is really what
>> we're after, though the later might be a solution in a worse case.
>>
>> Mostly I'm hoping for a "modules.conf" or "sysctl.conf" solution...
> 
> Assuming you are working with a recent distro, Why not put something like this:
> "HWADDR=00:D0:B7:A9:25:DA" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> 
> The only down side that I can think of is that if you change nic's you
> have to fix the file. Most likely you would have to do something like that
> anyway. :-)
> 
>>From what I can tell this list is all but dead. Since you do not say what
> version of Red Hat/fedora you are running it is hard to point you to a better
> list. I can tell you though that if you are running RHEL3 to look for the
> taroon list, if RHEL4 look for the nahant list, if one of the rebuilds then
> there are good lists for most of them. If fedora core there is a fedora list.
> There are also several good IRC channels available depending on your tastes.
> 
> If you need help finding a specific list let me know.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Tom Diehl		[email protected]		Spamtrap address [email protected]
> 
> 
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> 
> This may not be the right group, but someone can probably answer it here 
>  (nor is it clear what the right group would be)...
> 
> Anyway, provided you're feeling charitable, does anyone know if there a 
> graceful way to force Linux to assign multiple ethernets that use the 
> same driver to a specific instance of "ethX". For instance, say if you 
> had multiple BMC ethernet controllers of the same type (or even a 
> multiport card) and wanted to make sure a specific port was "eth0", 
> another was "eth1", etc.
> 
>  From what I can Google, the answer is either "no", or you can do it 
> through LILO/Grub "ether=" parameters. Neither answer is really what 
> we're after, though the later might be a solution in a worse case.
> 
> Mostly I'm hoping for a "modules.conf" or "sysctl.conf" solution...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>             - Matt
> 
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