Re: Dual NIC - device assign problem

[Theodore Kisner <kisner@physics.ucsb.edu>]

You might check out section 10.9 of this manual to see if it helps:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html

cheers,

-Ted

On Friday 28 January 2005 10:03, Jörg Ebeling wrote:
> HiHo,
>
> I've a Tyan S4882 with a Broadcom Dual NIC controller on Board.
>
> The NIC module "tg3" loads so far but assigns the ethernet devices
> (eth0/eth1) randomly to the NICs.
>
> First I thought it would be a noob problem but after parsing (nearly the
> whole) google I still found no real solution.
>
> My hope in a i.e. "MAC address selection module option" is gone and I
> saw/read that Dual NIC's seem to have that problem in general (ifup/down
> says such stuff in the man page).
>
> The mapping solution which is proposed by ifupdown, doesn't makes me
> happy too, because I need the ethernet device names later on in my
> shorewall. Well it could be made via scripts and shorewall variables,
> but it sounds like the wrong way for me.
>
> Any help/suggestions ?