On Thursday 04 September 2003 19:28, Ian Norton wrote: > hi, this is slightly OT, the dual broadcom gigabit ethernet interfaces on > my opteron system seem to swap around occasionally, today eth0 became eth1 > etc, > > any ideas how i can solve this? Yes, you need to set up /etc/mactab and run /sbin/nameif on each boot. See e.g. http://lists.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-users/2003-May/006365.html Arnd <><