WG: Change NIC names (thus the order)

[Bob Chiodini]

On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 10:43 +0100, Kiessling, Michael wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to change the order the NICs are named?
> Eg: eth0 should be eth2 and vice versa
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Michael
> 
> 

Michael,

This may not be the easiest way.

If you can distinguish something unique about each NIC, (e.g. driver,
I/O address, IRQ number) then you can manipulate the names by specifying
the unique attribute(s) using the "options" or "alias" statement
in /etc/modprobe.conf.

Bob...