assignment of eth* devices

[Rick Stevens]

David Hoffman wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:06:28 -0500 (EST), William Hooper
> <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>>David Hoffman said:
>>
>>>On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:21:46 -0500, Sameer Kamat <sameer at unitrends.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>Would anyone know how to force the system to assign a specific
>>>>network card a specific eth device. Is there a file/ setting that can be
>>>>adjusted to force this operation.?
>>>>
>>>
>>>I had this problem with my system. I wanted to use my 100-base-T
>>>connection for the link to the router, but wanted my Gigabit connection for
>>>the LAN side. But when I did the install, they were reversed.
>>
>>I really think for that example that swapping the cables would be the
>>easiest solution.
>>
> 
> 
> I hope that was meant to be humerous.
> 
> Swapping cables is one thing, but what about having to go into any of
> a dozen places in your system and swapping eth0 with eth1?
> Some of us have developed pretty elaborate firewall rules, not to
> mention many other configurations that point to particular interfaces.
> Maybe if this was a brand new installation that might work, but not in
> all cases.

Have you tried using the "HWADDR=" bit in the ifcfg-ethx scripts?
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