On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Miles O'Neal wrote:

> We haven't tried multiple NICs on SL yet.
> But on RH 8 (current production environment)
> when you boot a system with multiple NICs,
> they may get activated in a different order
> each time, resulting in severe network issues
> when IPs are suddenly on the wrong subnets.
> 
> Has this been resolved in EL/SL?
> 
> Thanks,
> Miles
> 

Miles,

NICs are activated in order eth0, eth1, ...  What gets called eth0, eth1, 
... is determined by the order in which they are "discovered" which is 
usually just the PCI order on the motherboard.

Ken