Configuration:
SuSE 9.3
1 nic for dsl
2 nic's for internal traffic with switch

Problem: eth0, eth1 and eth2 are not always related with the same nic. It changes on boot which makes bonding impossible with
ifup bond0
ifenslave bond0 eth0 eth1

Sometimes eth0 or eth1 on boot is related with the dsl-nic.

Tried PERSISTENT_NAME = eth-0 in the ifcfg-eth-macadress1 and also in the config-file for the other nic. Also changed ifenslave to
ifenslave bond0 eth-0 eth-1 (no way to place the mac here?)

After booting the computer renames the nics, but then searches for mandatory devices eth0, eth1, eth2. => bond0 not available

In 8.2 modules.conf(.local) the syntax changed from

alias eth0 3com59x
alias eth1 realtek...

to 9.3 modprobe.conf(.local)

install eth0 /sbin/true
install eth1 /sbin/true
howto handle eth2?

I also tried iftab and ifrename -t without success.

How can I solve this bonding-problem?
Thanks for helping

Here I found the solution:

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/0...ing_setup.html

I have the same problem. Suse9.3 on a Dell Inspiron 600m. It has both wireless and ethernet built-in. Sometimes wireless is eth0, and sometimes it's eth1.

I'm not trying to do any bonding. But I want to make some scripts for the wireless connection. I can't do that if I can't predict whether it's eth0 or eth1... looked at the link above from max_mad, but I don't understand how that controls the eth* naming of the interfaces.

Hi, it looks like you don't need any new bonding-techniques ;-) rather than giving your nic's PERSISTENT_NAMES or give them new names with iftab and ifrename => first posting of mine.

Greetings

Where's iftab? Where do you set PERSISTENT_NAME? where's ifrename? I haven't found anything like these commands/files in /etc/sysconfig/network/config. I've tried running iftab and ifrename as root, but that doesn't work.

Hi,

iftab is similar to fstab: written with an editor. Something like

eth0 mac 00:0a:12:13:14

for all if's
ifrename: look for it with filesearch, Place ifrename -t in the init.d/network if initialisation-section
(setting up network interfaces or something like that)

PERSISTENT_NAME = eth-0 in the ifcfg-eth-macadress1-file in /etc/sysconfig/network

Depends on your Linux-Distri and version.

Not much help for your problem, I guess.