[Techtalk] NIC modules under Debian

[Robyn Manning]

Hi

I do them the same as in RedHat

alias eth0 tulip
alias eth1 3c59x

Robyn

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 01:21, Hamster wrote:
> 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
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