How to map eth0 to a different interface

[Joe Hood]

Try changing the interfaces around in Grub.

On Apr 7, 2005 8:29 AM, Burke, Thomas G. <tg.burke at ngc.com> wrote:
> If they're using the same driver, they should be on different interrupts & base addresses...  Therefore, you can call the moudules with the irq= & addr= (IIRC) parameters & put them in theorder you want.
> 
>     -Tom
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Suraj Chandrasekaran
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 2:53 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: How to map eth0 to a different interface
> 
> well, the reason that I need control is, I am using an IDS s/w that
> needs its inbound port to be eth1 and outbound port to be eth0. Since
> my eth0 and eth1 ports are fiber optic gigi ports and only eth2 and
> eth3 are copper ports, I need the copper ports to be eth0 and eth1.
> 
> And as you (Simpson) said, since all the ports use the same driver, it
> doesnot make any difference in changing the order.
> 
> Suraj
> 
> On Apr 6, 2005 11:14 PM, Karasik, Vitaly <vkarasik at nds.com> wrote:
> >  >I am having a pc with 5 interface cards, 4 of which are gigi and one
> > is 100mbps.
> >
> > >the gigis are eth0 to eth3 and the other is eth4. I want to map eth0 to
> > eth3 in the reverse, so that eth3 is called eth0 >and eth2 is eth1,
> > >eth1 is eth2 and eth0 is eth3.
> >
> > >I tried the ~/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*, but am not successful. I am
> > using kernl version 2.4.18.
> >
> > You can change NICs order with nameif utility [from net-tools package]
> >
> > Rgds,
> > Vitaly
> >
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