[Asterisk-Users] Multiple NICs on Asterisk box

[Zoltan Szecsei]

Dave Cotton wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 09:01 +0200, Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
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>>Ken Godee wrote:
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>>>>On reboot sometimes my onboard gigabit nic gets eth0 and sometimes 
>>>>the pci 3COM gets eth0 and this causes havoc with another piece of SW 
>>>>I run.
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>I seem to remember having this type of thing before, only I had two
>identical NICs, because they were good ones :)
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>Have you tried creating an alias in modprobe.conf (2.6) or modules.conf
>(2.4)
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>alias eth0 b44
>alias eth1 e100
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>in my case
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Hi,
I'm not sure what you are getting at here. An alias is just a second 
name for something. If the HW device changes under the original name 
(eth0), then surely the alias pointing to that original name now too 
points to the different HW device?

Apologies if I have mis-understood you.

I seem to think that what is required is a way (at boot time) to make 
certain that the pci slots get probed before the on M/B nic gets probed, 
that way ensuring that the pci nic is set up before the on board nic.
Can this be done?

regards,
Zoltan

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