[K12OSN] Switching Network Cards

Terrell Prude' Jr. microman at cmosnetworks.com
Thu Sep 4 15:38:40 UTC 2008


That's correct.  On Debian-like systems, you want the 
file /etc/network/interfaces.

--TP

On Thursday 04 September 2008 11:31, Rob Owens wrote:
> I think network-scripts is only present in RedHat-like systems.
>
> -Rob
>
> Crampton, Stephen C. wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I do not seem to have a network-scripts folder.  I'm
> > running Edubuntu 8.04.
> >
> >> I installed Edubuntu with LTSP on a box with two network cards.
> >> Edubuntu wants to use eth0 for communicating with clients and eth1 for
> >> communicating with the world.
> >>
> >> eth1 is a gigabit card, so I would like to switch things around.
> >> Could someone tell me which configuration files need to be modified so
> >> that eth0 will communicate with the world and eth1 will communicate
> >> with the LTSP clients?
> >
> > You can force a NIC to be associated with a specific ethX by editing
> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX.  If you specify the MAC
> > address and the ethX you want, you can completely determine the binding,
> > like this:
> >
> > *HWADDR=00:1A:64:32:94:26
> > DEVICE=eth0*
> > IPADDR=10.0.61.8
> > NETMASK=255.255.0.0
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > TYPE=Ethernet
> >
> > best,
> > -tim
> >
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