[Asterisk-Users] Multiple NICs on Asterisk box

[Zoltan Szecsei]

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
>
>> I've traced the problem to be with the firewall and the fact that I 
>> have 2 NICs in the box. Now that I have opened port 4569 on both 
>> interfaces, asterisk seems happy *but* does anyone know how to force 
>> SuSE 9.3 to always bring up a specific NIC before the otherone?
>
>
> SUSE Pro 9.3 assigns IP addresses to NICs based on their MAC 
> addresses, not their slot positions or load order (unless you've done 
> something funky). You should not have any problem with the wrong NIC 
> getting a particular IP address, and Asterisk does not care at all 
> which one is 'eth0'.

I wish this were true, but, believe me, on reboot, sometime the pci 3com 
card gets eth0 and sometime the onboard. Who says computers re-iterate 
perfectly :-)  ?

BTW: I need the pci card to be eth0 (sensed first).

Zoltan


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