Chuck,
You might check and see if you can specify what is what based on the MAC
address. I'm not familiar with out Arch does this, but every other
distro I've played around with that was not statically configured
(Debian, CentOS, Fedora, etc) this was possible.
On 05/14/2010 09:54 PM, Chuck Hast wrote:
> I have a video server with two nic cards in it. One is the network access
> and the other is gigabit for the camera streams. In the past I have
> set up each ethernet port based on the drive, the host machine is
> Arch Linux, the differentiation of the ports has been done based on
> the drivers, here is the sample on my home test and demo machine,
> this comes from rc.conf.
>
> Here is where the sequence of the driver loading takes place
> -----------------------------------------------SoT--------------------------
> MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
> #MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
> MODULES=(r8169 skge)
> -----------------------------------------------EoT-----------------------------
> r8169 is loaded first
> skge is loaded second
>
> Now here are the stanzas that set up eth0 and eth1
>
> ------------------------------------------------SoT-----------------------------
> eth0="dhcp"
> #eth1="dhcp"
> eth1="eth1 172.31.7.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 172.31.7.255"
> INTERFACES=(eth0 eth1)
> ------------------------------------------------EoT-------------------------------
>
> The problem I have is the 2nd Nic card also uses the r8169 chip
> set, so now I need another mechanism to make sure that each
> port comes up where it is supposed to. So far in testing this new
> machine has worked just fine, but I can see it getting things confused
> and swapping the ports around. I am looking for another mechanism
> to make sure it does not happen.
>
>
>
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