On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:08:23PM +0200, W. Borgert wrote: > Question: Is there a way to force the system to use a specific > interface card for eth0? Something in /etc/modules or > /etc/network/interfaces? i have a pre-up in my interfaces: iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.0.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 pre-up /usr/local/bin/check-mac-address.sh eth1 00:30:84:76:68:B2 and the script referenced there looks like this: #!/bin/sh -e iface="$1" targetmac="$2" mac=$(/sbin/ifconfig $iface | sed -n 's/^.*HWaddr \([0-9A-Za-z:]*\).*/\1/p') if [ "$targetmac" = "$mac" ]; then exit 0; else exit 1; fi found this somewhere on the net... cu robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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