I have a box with 2 NICs in it. SuSE 9.2 Pro.
One Realtek that starts up as eth0, and a Broadcom that starts up as eth1. So far, so good.
But suddenly after a reboot, they've changed places? The Realtek is
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 10:53, Anders Norrbring wrote: then
eth1 and the Broadcom is eth0.
A couple of reboots later, they've changed places again! How can I control this? I need static naming since I have apps that depends on the correct name/network.
look for PERSISTANT_NAME in the suse docu.
I found PERSISTENT_NAME, and as I understand, I should add a line in the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id-...... files to control the device name. So, of course I tried, but the names after reboot was just the opposite of what I had entered.
So then you went back into the file and switched them to get them correct? And now they are the way you want them?
Nope, sorry that I didn't make it clear. The config that has PERSISTENT_NAME='eth0' is labelled eth1 and vice versa. Alas, just the opposite of what I want. I've now rebooted a number of times, and every now and then the labelling changes (to what I want), and then changes back again. Seems like there's no logic at all in this.. Anders.