[ale] Controlling network interface order in 2.6 kernel

[Tony Carter]

On Monday 13 December 2004 20:27, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
> Hello,
>
>    I'm upgrading a machine to FC3 that has two ethernet interfaces.
> They are coming up in the reverse order compared to the 2.4
> kernel. So, the NIC associated with eth0 before is now associated
> with eth1 under 2.6. I'd like to control the order if possible. I found
> one link that might help,
>
> http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/network-interface-names.txt
>
> but I'd rather not go through this painful task of having to rework
> all of the interfaces, particularly if I have to reinstall FC3 (I don't
> want to have to redo everything again). Does anyone have any
> suggestions?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
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If your using a custom built kernel, you could always unselect "Automatic 
Kernel module loading" and  load them in modules.conf.
-Tony