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["Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx>]

Anders Norrbring wrote:
> 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 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.
You could try adding the kernel module names for the NICs to 
/etc/sysconfig/kernel "MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT", in the order you want 
them.  In 6.4 days this worked great, I would assume it would still work 
now.
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Joe Morris
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