CentOS - Sep 2013 - elrepo kmod-sk98lin.i686

Hi,

I noticed that one of out "Centos 5" servers with an onboard 
"Marvell
88E8001" was showing some packet overruns.

# ifconfig -a eth0 | grep "RX p"
     RX packets:1629537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:3694 frame:0

So I thought about using a driver from "elrepo" the lspci id's
suggest to
install the "kmod-sk98lin" driver. I yum installed the kernel module
and
on reboot found the server was still using the old "skge" driver.

ethtool -i eth0
driver: skge
version: 1.6

Looking at modprobe.conf shows

# cat /etc/modprobe.conf | grep eth0
alias eth0 skge

[1] Should I just change the "skge" in the above line to
"sk98lin" and
reboot?


[2] This motherboard has a "Marvell 88E8052" as a second NIC,
currently
disbled in the BIOS. Problem is that the "88E8001" NIC has to be
"eth0" as
it is the one used in a "flexlm" license server file. In Centos five
how
can you *force* a given NIC controller to always post at "eth0" ?

Cheers, Steve

On 02.Sep.2013, at 22:14, Steve Brooks wrote:
> [2] This motherboard has a "Marvell 88E8052" as a second NIC,
currently
> disbled in the BIOS. Problem is that the "88E8001" NIC has to be
"eth0" as
> it is the one used in a "flexlm" license server file. In Centos
five how
> can you *force* a given NIC controller to always post at "eth0" ?
I think that setting HWADDR in ifcfg-eth0 should do the trick.
-- 
Markus