Still baffled by choice of ethx

[Duane Clark]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I asked some time ago about the mapping of devices
> to interfaces eth0, eth1, etc,
> and received some lucid responses,
> particularly from Luciano Rocha, who wrote:
> ----------------------------------
>> I'm puzzled by the device eth0 , etc,
>> chosen by different drivers.

If they are using different drivers (I have an onboard ethernet chip 
using the e1000 driver, and a plugin card using the tulip driver) then 
you can force the initial assignment in the /etc/modprobe.conf file:

alias eth1 e1000
alias eth0 tulip