Configure multiple ethernet interfaces

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 13:17 5/7/2004, Bob Shaffer wrote:
>You're pretty much stuck with whatever number it gives your interfaces.  I
>think it mostly depends on which slot they are actually in.

You can change (for example):

alias eth0 e100
alias eth1 natsemi

to the following:

alias eth0 natsemi
alias eth1 e100

In general, that works for me.

>I don't see a man page for these scripts anywhere.  You could print out
>the /sbin/ifup script for reference if you can read shell scripts.

Read the files in /usr/share/doc/initscripts-7.42.2/. Those have some 
documentation.

Cheers,


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