Hi,

try to bind eth0 and eth1 to the MAC address of the devices.

system-config-network -> Device configuration -> Hardware device -> bind to MAC address

Or in

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
...
HWADDR=00:0C:12:34:56:78
...

	Urs



Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> Hi,
> After upgrading a Sony Vaio from SL4 to SL5, a strange (at least for me)
> behaviour appeared for the network interfaces, eth0 and eth1.  Normally,
> eth0 should be assigned to the wired interface, and eth1 to the wireless
> one. What happens now is that the 2 are swapped, i.e. eth0 is asigned to 
> the
> wireless interface...
> Even more strange: this happens apparently randomly, i.e. I get
> the right assignments about 1 time over 3.  I found that the aliases in
> /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and /etc/modprobe.conf were swapped, but the
> problem is still present after restoring the right aliases in these 2 
> files.
> This never occured with SL4 on this laptop, and with SL4 or SL5 on any
> other computer.
> The only workaround I found was to run at begining of boot rmmod / modprobe
> commands for the 2 drivers at beggining of boot.
> 
> Has anybody a explanation?
> 
> best regards,