Question
I have two NIC's, one wired and one wireless. On each boot SuSE 9.3 seems to randomly assign eth0 to one of them and eth1 to the other. It doesn't matter that the wireless is disabled. How do I assign a fixed name to each NIC?
Answer
You need to assign a "persistent name" to each NIC.
In "/etc/sysconfig/network" you will find a file named ifcfg-something for each NIC. Edit the ones whose names end with MAC adresses and add the line
PERSISTENT_NAME=xxx
to one of them, and
PERSISTENT_NAME=yyy
to the other, then run
SuSEconfig
and
/etc/init.d/network restart.
Note that the names can not be eth0, etc1, etc, since names with that format are reserved. It is generally a good idea to use descriptive names like lan, wan or wlan.
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