[NTLUG:Discuss] Ethernet card issues

Jerome Haltom wasabi at larvalstage.net
Mon Jun 4 16:57:47 CDT 2007


Ubuntu uses udev to provide static names to devices. I'd imagine Suse
would be similar. Check to see if /etc/iftab exists.

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 16:47 -0500, Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> Shawn VS wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone knew how to force the second
> > of a pair of ethernet cards to eth0 every time in SUSE
> > Linux. 
> > This card will always be a 3Com network card.
> >
> >   
> In slackware, the /etc/rc.d/rc.netdevice script can be used to load the 
> NIC modules you want to use into a specific order.  Other methods to do 
> this are to use aliases in your modules.conf file for your particular 
> distro.  
> 
> Visit  http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/NIC and 
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap8sec88.html for some additional help.
> 
> 




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