This one time, at band camp, Hanasaki JiJi said: > I just upgraded to 2.4.18 on debian woody and built my own kernel. In the > past, there was an alias for "tulip" in the modules file. This named my > NIC eth0. In my firewall, it named the NICs eth0 and eth1 > > In 2.4.18 I cannot seem to find the place to name the NICs. Where can > this be done? It will be a big issue on my firewall as eth0 MUST remain > the external nic. > > Thankyou It's the same as in earlier kernels - you create a file under /etc/modutils/ (mine is ethernet) with lines like: alias eth0 3c59x alias eth1 8139too and run update-modules. If both cards use the same driver, you can list the IO addresses (IIRC) to keep the cards the way you want, like: options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=9 If all of the above don't get you what you want, you may just have to physically switch them so the motherboard detects them in their proper order. HTH, Steve -- Watch all-night Donna Reed reruns until your mind resembles oatmeal.
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