Re: How to change NIC alias?

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 19:04 -0200, Linux Man wrote:
> Hello all.
> I'm installing over a PC with 3 ethernet cards, one onboard
> (gigabit) and the another two discrete PCI.
> During installation I have no choice to control who will be eth0, eth1
> and eth2, but I need that eth0 be the onboard ethernet.
> In the end of the installation, it turned out to be one of the
> discrete ethernet eth0.
> I need to change that alias, so that the actual eth0 become eth1 and vice versa.
> Thanks a lot

You can add the "HWADDR=" clause to
the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX file to force binding to
a specific name.

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