[K12OSN] Swapping ETH0 and ETH1

[Dean Mumby]

Jim McQuillan wrote:

> Carl,
>
> Look in /etc/modules.conf for lines that say something like:
>
>
>    alias eth0=xxxxx.o
>    alias eth1=xxxxx.o
>
>
> Where the 'xxxxx' is the kernel module used for that NIC.
>
> if you find that, then swap the '0' and '1', and it should cause the
> cards to come up in the order you want.
>
> Jim McQuillan
> jam at Ltsp.org
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Carl Keil wrote:
>
>> Hi People,
>>
>> I've had trouble all along with my k12ltsp server because I wanted to 
>> use the NIC on the mobo for the clients (it's 1000BaseT).  So, I did 
>> all this work to switch the all the settings for eth0 and eth1 for 
>> the k12ltsp install. Unfortunately, I just did an upgrade install to 
>> 4.1 and now my clients can't boot again.  I went through the files 
>> and it looks like the install did a lot of assuming that ETH1 was for 
>> outside and ETH0 was for the clients.  It went through and detected 
>> the IP's assigned and swapped everything.  In /etc/hosts it it put in 
>> a client entry for every IP on my outside subnet.
>>
>> SO, is there a way to swap which nic is assigned to be ETH0 and which 
>> is ETH1?  Man, this would solve so many problems.  I could just go 
>> with the default install then.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> ck
>>
>>
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I have experienced this as well you need to check that the ethx is not 
being locked to a specific mac address.  you will also need to check 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx

regards
dean