assignment of eth* devices

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Feb 8 02:38:18 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 14:54 -0500, William Hooper wrote:
> David Hoffman said:
> [snip]
> >
> > I think you are missing my point. When I installed FC3, I didn't do it
> > as an upgrade, I built it on a brand new machine. But I have several
> > scripts and configuration files from a development machine that I wanted
> > to migrate to it. Files for my iptables, samba, http, ftp, mailserver,
> > etc. etc. all could have easily been copied over from my dev machine to
> > production.
> 
> This wasn't mention in either your example or the OP's question.
> 

True, but the correct answer is not one that is limited to a specific
set of circumstances but will be useful in all cases.

> > Long story short, just swapping the cables may not solve his problem,
> 
> I didn't say it would.  I said that from the information provided in your
> example, swapping the cables would be the easiest solution.
> 
> > and perhaps he needs some help that is more constructive than facetious.
> 
> I guess it depends on what your definition of facetious is.  Spending 30
> seconds swapping cables seems to be easier (if you don't have other
> baggage) than reconfiguring both devices.
> 
> I guess I took your comment "Wait a little while to see if anyone else
> comes up with another solution..." to literally.
> 
> -- 
> William Hooper
> 




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