help starting eth2 before eth1 for routing purpose

[RR]

no prob. sorry for the typo. if you choose option #2, it should be
chkconfig network off, not stop.

cheers

On 7/6/06, Omar Hasan <omarhasan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thank you very much for your quick reply.
>
> Best Regards
>
> OM
>
> --- RR <ranjtech at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > OM, reconfiguring is extremely simple and you'll
> > probably have an
> > easier time doing that than the alternative solution
> > unless there are
> > better solutions than what I can think of off the
> > top of my head.
> >
> > 1) reconfiguring: If eth2 and eth1 are the same type
> > of NICs, go to
> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and modify the
> > properties of ifcfg-eth2
> > and ifcfg-eth1 and then type "service network
> > restart" at command line
> > and your NICs would be reconfigured to each other's
> > addresses etc.
> >
> > 2) no reconfiguring: Turn off network activation
> > during startup:
> > chkconfig network stop
> > then in place the lines in the file
> > /etc/rc3.d/S99local
> > ifup eth2
> > ifup eth1
> >
> > in the above mentioned order and I'm guessing that
> > would startup eth2
> > before eth1.
> >
> > never tried it but logically it might work.
> >
> > Hope it helps
> > \R
> >
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