How to map eth0 to a different interface

[Suraj Chandrasekaran]

Guys, I tried all that, for no use. I am still not able to map it. I
had tried the mapping feature before hand. So, any more options anyone
could think of?

Thanks a lot guys, for giving me a lot of options.. I appreciate your help.

-Suraj


On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:58:10 -0400, Wayne Betts <wbetts at bnl.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:32, Mike Klinke wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 April 2005 21:28, Suraj Chandrasekaran 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.
> > >
> > 
> > I've not tested this suggestion myself but will the:
> > 
> > HWADDR 
> > 
> > ( see /usr/share/doc/initscripts-xxxx/sysconfig.txt )
> > 
> > directive in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx
> > 
> > associate the correct device with the correct ethx interface?
> 
> That sounds like the answer.  You can add them by hand of course, but
> Redhat's network config GUI (redhat-config-network (?)) has a "Bind to
> MAC Address" option (or "Use Hardware Address" in older releases) that I
> think does it for you.  
> 
> In the main window, select a device, click on Edit, then in the new
> pop-up, click on the Hardware Device tab.  It can probe the device
> currently in use -- but since you want to change the bindings, that
> probably isn't what you want to use, so you can get the MAC addresses
> for all of your interfaces from the output of ifconfig and bind them as
> you wish.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> 
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