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XeeNeR

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Registered: 2006-09-07

Posts: 3

Network interfaces initialized different for each boot...

Hi All.

After I switched to mkinitcpio on my Arch box (currently kernel 2.6.17.11-1), my ethernet devices (I have 2 network cards) has begun to be initialized in a random manner, along with my 1394-connection. That means that my "main" network card is sometimes found as eth0, sometimes eth1, and the other as either eth1 or eth2, where the 1394-connection is either initialized as eth0, eth1 or eth2. How can i get around this? Is there a way to force an ethernet device to a certain interface?

Regards
XeeNeR

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: Network interfaces initialized different for each boot...

In the wiki here.

paul2lv

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From: Vegas

Registered: 2005-11-09

Posts: 116

Re: Network interfaces initialized different for each boot...

Also, if you don't need to run a network over 1394, you can simply blacklist the "eth1394" module in your rc.conf.

XeeNeR

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Registered: 2006-09-07

Posts: 3

Re: Network interfaces initialized different for each boot...

Thanx a bunch!