Re: Determine order of network interfaces
Ketil Froyn wrote:
Hi,
I have a computer with some network interfaces, and I am unable to
determine which physical interface gets assigned to which ethX during boot.
Specifically, my problem is that the firewire driver suddenly started
using eth1 instead of eth2 yesterday. It hadn't done this before, and I
had to change my interfaces file as a result. The issue is that I want a
normal interface to be on eth1, and I want to be certain that this never
changes again. I have tried to edit /etc/modutils/aliases and added
(near the top)
alias eth2 eth1394
but this didn't help at all (I remembered to run update-modules, and saw
the added lines in /etc/modules.conf). Then I tried creating
/etc/modprobe.conf, with the line
alias eth2 eth1394
and as a result I could remove all the network modules and successfully
run "modprobe eth2", which had never worked before.However, the order
was still wrong after rebooting, then eth2 was my normal ethernet
interface, while eth1 had been "stolen" by the firewire driver again.
So now I wonder how I can force my debian system to let me specify which
interfaces get which names during boot.
Cheers,
Ketil
I solved this problem in my laptop by using Debian tools (see "Dealing
with inconsistent naming of interfaces by the kernel" in the Debian
reference, http://www.debian.org/doc).
here's how I did in my laptop:
http://www.lorenzobettini.it/linux/LinuxSonyVaioVGN-S5VP_B
hope this helps
cheers
Lorenzo
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