[GLLUG] gentoo and net device ordering

[Michael George]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:41:24PM -0400, Matt Graham wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 July 2005 14:25, after a long battle with technology, 
> Michael George wrote:
> > For you Gentoo-ers out there...
> >
> > If I have two network devices (which take different kernel modules),
> > can I affect which one gets to be eth0 by the order I have them in
> > /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6?
> 
> The modules are loaded in the order specified.  If you have via-velocity 
> before tulip in the file, the via-velocity module will be loaded first 
> and the Velocity NIC will be eth0 (if you have a Velocity NIC.)  
> 
> /etc/modules.conf is automagically generated from the files 
> in /etc/modules.d/ by one of the boot scripts, so you could also do 
> something like this:
> 
> # in /etc/modules.d/nic
> alias eth0 via-velocity # or whatever...
> alias eth1 tulip
> alias eth2 e100
> # EOF
> 
> ...and then you really wouldn't have to put the modules in the autoload 
> file.  HTH,

Interesting, both methods.  Thank you!

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