Re-Order Nic Cards

[Jeff Vian]

Chris Stankaitis wrote:

>On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, David Both wrote:
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>>There are a couple ways.
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>>The better way is to edit the ifcfg-ethx files which are located in 
>>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/. The sample (filename = ifcfg-eth0) below shows 
>>what I am talking about.
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>Not to look a gift horse in the mouth but that seems a wee bit too easy.. 
>what if anything do I need to do about my modprob.conf
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>cat /etc/modprobe.conf
>include /etc/modprobe.conf.dist
>alias eth0 3c59x
>alias eth1 via-rhine
>alias eth2 epic100
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>how do those ethX relate to the ifcfg-ethX in sysconfig/network-scripts?  
>Is Modprob saying eth0 is the 3com and then ifcfg is saying No it's eth4 
>(as a bad example)
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Yes, the modprobe.conf specifies the ethX device associagted with the 
specific driver.  the /etc/sysconfig/netowrk-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 should 
match that in /etc/modprobe.conf

Note:  the DEV=eth0 line is *not* driver specific, but is rather device 
specific.  Thus, regardless of which device drivers is aliased as eth0 
in modprobe.conf, that device will be configured by the settings in 
/etc/sysconfig/netowrk-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ( or rather the one that 
contains the DEV=eth0 line).

However, I would use the system-config-network tool to verify/reset the 
tcp configs after verifying the entries in modprobe.conf and rebooting.

>--Chris
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