Re: NIC slot and ethx

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 04:02:01PM +0800, Kaiji Chen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  My box has 3 NIC slots and everytime I change NIC, the mapping between NIC
> and ethx change ramdomly,
> Is there any method to fix the mapping?

Yes.  Set up nameif to do the mapping by MAC addresses, and then place
the following script at /sbin/hotplug:
	http://www.kroah.com/linux/hotplug/ols_2001_hotplug_talk/html/mgp00014.html


Hope this helps,

greg k-h
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