assignment of eth* devices

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 14:55 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> David Hoffman wrote:
> > I have tried making the swap in the modprobe.conf file and had no luck
> > with it. After reboot, it came back the same way. This was with two
> > different nics.
> 
> Hmmm... strange.  This worked for me, every time (although, last time I 
> actually used it was Red Hat 7.3 system).  Don't remember if I also did 
> "depmod -a" after editing the file.
> 

RH7 did not automatically create the HWADDRESS line in ifcfg-eth0.  FC3
does.

> Looking at Fedora machines, seems that HWADDR setting is placed in 
> default auto-generated ifcfg-ethX files.  Maybe this is the reason it 
> hasn't worked for you (what happens if you don't have HWADDR line in 
> ifcfg-ethX file?).
> 
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