assignment of eth* devices

[David Hoffman]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:21:46 -0500, Sameer Kamat <sameer at unitrends.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>           Would anyone know how to force the system to assign a specific
> network card
> a specific eth device. Is there a file/ setting that can be adjusted to
> force this operation.?
>  

I had this problem with my system. I wanted to use my 100-base-T
connection for the link to the router, but wanted my Gigabit
connection for the LAN side. But when I did the install, they were
reversed.

Here's what I did, but there may be much easier ways.

Problems with eth0 and eth1 on wrong adapters?

Run system-config-network
-- Deactivate both devices
-- Delete both devices
-- On hardware tab, delete both adapters

Run kudzu
-- The first adapter that it finds (and that you CONFIGURE) will be
eth0, so if it finds the adapter you want to be eth1 first, then tell
it to "do nothing".
-- Let it go find the other adapter and configure that one. That will
make it eth0.
-- Then run kudzu again and this time let it configure the other
adapter which will make it eth1.

Run system-config-network again.
-- Select the DNS tab and make sure that information is correct,
especially for DNS search path.
-- Select the devices tab, edit one of the devices and be sure the
gateway is set correctly.


Like I said, this is what I did to make it work for me. Wait a little
while to see if anyone else comes up with another solution, or
validates mine.

Some of the things I tried were editing the modprobe.conf file and the
network scripts in /etc/sysconfig...  disabling and enabling the
adapters... this was the only way I could easily get it to work.




David
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