NIC detection not tied to which PCI slot a card is in?

[turnbui]

Hi folks,
I have got a new NIC but whichever slot I put it in it gets eth1 assigned to it.
I already have an internet connection on eth1 and would rather the new NIC be identified as eth2. Save reconfiguring lots of other stuff.

Is there a way to do this please?

[bigtomrodney]

I think this info is held by MAC address in the ifcfg-eth0, but I haven't got a Mandriva system anymore(guessing from your avatar), and my SuSE works differently. Can you post the contents of you /etc/sysconfig/network/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 that location is from memory too, but there should be a file by that name under /etc/sysconfig somewhere...

[turnbui]

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcg-eth0

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.3.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.3.0
BROADCAST=192.168.3.255
ONBOOT=yes
METRIC=10
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes

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/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcg-eth1

DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
METRIC=10
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
DHCP_HOSTNAME=mygateway
NEEDHOSTNAME=no

======================
/etc/iftab

br0 mac 00:00:00:00:00:00
eth0 mac 00:50:04:0d:0e:30
eth1 mac 00:02:e3:21:3e:19

Thanks for your time.

[turnbui]

Well I found the iftab using grep on the eth1 MAC.
Stuk a line in for eth2 and as you knew already everythings A-OK.

Thanks for the pointer.