Where is eth0/eth1/assigned -

Mike Burger mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Thu Jun 4 19:56:41 UTC 2009


> Mike Burger wrote:
>>>     I am still struggling with this f10 install. It appeared that the
>>>     NIC in eth0 was no good. I pulled it out and left the second card
>>>     which was/is eth1.
>>>
>>>     It looks to me like that designation eth1 might be changed to eth0
>>>     using ethtool but if so, I can't find the right command.
>>>
>>>     I have used service-config-network to set it up as 192.168.1.10 and
>>>     eth1, network-scripts is set up for eth1. but no matter what I do a
>>>     ping to another computer yields "Network is unreachable."
>>>
>>>     This is a wired connection. I've tried a different cat5 cable.
>>>     "ethtools eth1" looks ok compared to the other computers. Not sure
>>>     what I have missed but it would be simpler perhaps if I could
>>>     convince the NIC that it was eth0 instead of eth1 but I can't
>>>     determine how that is set.
>>>
>>>     Any help appreciated. I am about at wits end.
>>>
>>
>> Actually, it's probably in your /etc/modprobe.conf file.
>>
>>
>>
>
>     /etc/modprobe.conf is an empty file?
>     Do I need to use it to change the eth designation? Don't know how
>     but ...

Used to...it's possible that it's being done via udev, at this point. 
Lemme look around at ethtool and udev info.

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