Where is eth0/eth1/assigned -

[Bob Goodwin]

Mike Burger wrote:
>>> 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!!!
>
>   

    You are correct, I had considered it might be tied to a MAC address!
    But I never would have found that file without your help.

    Now I have to fix the rest of the network config stuff.

    Thanks much.

    Bob