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SubjectRe: eth-Devices and naming wishes
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Marc Haber wrote:

> However, it seems that I can't control which ethx alias will be
> associated with the trusted network because both cards are PCI and
> their resource assignments are controlled by the system BIOS. Thus, I
> will have to jump through hoops to take care of this in every init and
> maintenance script which will prove a major pain and source of
> problems.

You can load the modules in order. for example, say you have two 3c509
cards, do:

insmod 3c509 irq=10,11 io=0x300,0x320

This will make eth0 be 10,0x300 and eth1 be 11,0x320. Alyways. in this
order only

btw. you might want to have a look at www.linuxrouter.org

Paul
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