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Re: How do I make my NIC pick the same ETH port every time?



On Saturday 25 March 2006 11:09, Tyson Varosyan wrote:
> Using Debian command mode 2.6 kernel.
>
> My NIC keeps jumping around between eth0 and eth1 every so often when I
> reboot. It is real annoying! How do I get it to stick to be the same all
> the time? It is conflicting with a firewire controller...

I have this same problem on a machine with several ethernet cards (and have to 
spend time swapping cable around to make sure everything is where Linux 
expects after a reboot).  I solved this for now by not rebooting for 
anything.

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