help starting eth2 before eth1 for routing purpose

[Wayne Pinette]

Sorry, I should add that those two lines you put in should be before the
for i in $interfaces; do  line

Wayner



>>> Wpinette at tru.ca 07/05/06 10:39 am >>>
This will work only if you are using simple tcp/ip on your two
interfaces.

If you are using VLANS, IPX, VPNS, IPV6, or anything like that, I
don't
think it will work.

Also, your loopback interface probably won't come up either.


Personally, I think it would be safer/easier just to reconfigure your
two network  cards, but if you really really don't want to do that,

copy your /etc/init.d/network script to /etc/init.d/network_orig

edit /etc/init.d/network  and look for the line that contains ./ifup
$i
boot (it will be there twice I think)

comment this line out and put in two lines that look exactly the same
only it would be ./ifup eth1 boot  and ./ifup eth2 boot.

This way your system still "acts" vanilla only it isn't.

That's my 2 cents worth  :-P

Wayner

P.S.

This advice is only speculation I haven't actually tested it or done
it.



>>> omarhasan at yahoo.com 07/05/06 10:28 am >>>
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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