From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KILFz-0003tj-6K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:26:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD79EE0320; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:26:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F5E5E0320 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:26:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BF7183AB80D for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:25:58 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:25:54 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network chip always comes up eth1 on 1-year-old Dell Inspiron 530 Message-ID: <20080714112554.793bd9cf@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080714094321.7c92ee0b@ilievnet.com> References: <20080709032122.GD5379@waltdnes.org> <20080709084451.24bc05ee@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> <20080712235556.GA15967@waltdnes.org> <20080713113056.2ffce7f0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <20080714094321.7c92ee0b@ilievnet.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0cvs23 (GTK+ 2.12.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_//tHFdWt.xtyxy=byZy4JaKo"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 26060615-fd53-48f1-8ed3-191ef08c292a X-Archives-Hash: ec82f0d9ccd7554159539f51cd2ef20b --Sig_//tHFdWt.xtyxy=byZy4JaKo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:43:21 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > It's hardly new, it's been around for some years. It is helpful if you > > have two NICs because it means they are named consistently, which is > > better than having your private network connected to the Internet > > because the kernel decided to load the modules in a different order. > 1) You can explicitly tell the kernel the order in which load the > modules And if the module for eth0 fails to load, the other card becomes eth0 instead of eth1. Using udev rules, the second card is always eth1, whatever happens elsewhere in the system. --=20 Neil Bothwick If at first you don't succeed, call in an airstrike. --Sig_//tHFdWt.xtyxy=byZy4JaKo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkh7KbYACgkQum4al0N1GQPfcQCeJ7O5TQj+L97n33zQfjC83pyW wyEAnjyus3DvHzO2+TsK9ASQDw5MYVCf =Y7sT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_//tHFdWt.xtyxy=byZy4JaKo-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list