RE: [gentoo-user] Question about 2006.0 and order of NIC detectio n

Hi Jeremy,

> Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) wrote:
> > Is there a way I can change this so that eth0/1 are the on-board
> > ports? It will save me lots of headaches later. :)
>
> You are looking for udev. Udev will create names for devices
> (USB drives, NICs, etc)
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml
> http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

Thanks for the links--I took a look through this stuff, and though it's (very) nifty, it isn't quite what I want.

This seems to only help if I have *one* machine that I want to rename my NICs on. 

I want my NICs to come up on *all* my servers:

Motherboard (tg3) NICs first: eth0 & eth1
PCI (e1000) NICs second: eth2 & eth3

I can do this if I write udev rules for every separate server, and then on every new server I build I have to go change the udev rules to match the MAC addresses for that box. Not quite what I had in mind for this. 

Maybe /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 is what I want? If I put tg3 in there, it then loads tg3 before e1000, thus giving the tg3 interfaces eth0 & eth1. 

However, before I broadcast that change to all of my boxes, I want to be sure this isn't the wrong way of doing this.

Thanks in advance!
Best,
--Glenn

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