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To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: NICs trading places ?
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 29 Mar 2003 05:47:17 +0100
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Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> writes:

> I just upgraded a box with 2 NICs in it to 2.5.66, and found
> that what was eth0 in 2.4 is now eth1, and vice versa.
> Is this phenomenon intentional ? documented ?

Just assign mac addresses to names and run nameif early in boot.

-Andi
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