Re: NICs trading places ?

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:10:37PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> I just upgraded a box with 2 NICs in it to 2.5.66, and found
> that what was eth0 in 2.4 is now eth1, and vice versa.
> Is this phenomenon intentional ? documented ?
> What caused it to do this ?

	Is this a Red Hat system?  I encountered the same thing on a
RHAS system.  Basically, Anaconda had controlled the module load order
in /etc/modules.conf for 2.4.  Because my network drivers were built in
in 2.5, they loaded in the order of the compile-in.  This turned out to
be the reverse order.
	Swapping eth0 and eth1 in /etc/modules.conf fixed the problem
for me.  This is not to say it is "Red Hat's fault" or that this is
entirely the same situation, but I figured this would make a good
datapoint.

Joel

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