Debian's /etc/network/interfaces configuration file supports checking for charactaristics of an interface before bringing it up. /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples/network-interfaces.gz has the skinny on this.
-Peter On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:01:14PM +0100, 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
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