[Techtalk] NIC modules under Debian

[Hamster]

Hello!

In one machine I have three networking cards. 

Under RedHat/Mdk I can specify aliases to those cards in /etc/modules.conf in
the format of:

alias eth0 tulip
alias eth1 3c59x
alias eth2 epic100


Under debian, I have used (as per instructions) the file /etc/modules to tell
deb to load those three modules, which it is doing perfectly. The file simply
looks like: (/etc/modules)

tulip
3c59x
epic100

However in deb, it appears to be assigning the ethX aliases in the order in
which it scans the cards upon boot. (or something along those lines)

Is there anyway of telling deb that I want eth0 to be the tulip, eth1 the 3com
etc??? In other words, is there a deb equivalent to the "alias" command
available under RH/Mdk? I tried re-ordering the listing in/etc/modules, but
that didnt seem to have any effect.

Thanks

Hamster