Where is eth0/eth1/assigned -

[Mike Burger]

>
>> 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.
Did a little googling of "udev eth designation" and found this:

http://www.mepis.org/node/10770

The short of it is to edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.

You can remove the line for eth0, then take the line for eth1, and as long
as the "ATTR{address}" line matches the MAC address of your current eth1
NIC, just change:

NAME="eth1"

to

NAME=eth0"

Reboot, and voila!!!

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