[afnog] swap interfaces

JFL kabagak at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 16:42:17 EAT 2005


in debian, if you're loading the card drivers as modules you can edit  
modules.conf and alias each interface to the appropriate
driver(as Mark showed) ...unless they're the same type of card in which 
case you can try switching their order in the modules.conf file

Mark Tinka wrote:

>On Thursday 04 August 2005 14:17, Sergio Carrilho wrote:
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>>Hi all,
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>Hi Sergio.
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>>I'm using Linux Debian, and while setting up a Debian
>>box, during the installation, I ended up with the name
>>eth0 for external NIC (additional card) and eth1 for
>>the internal NIC (onboard NIC). How can I swap these,
>>in order to have the internal NIC (onboard) identified
>>as eth0 and the external as eth1?
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>In earlier versions of SuSE, '/etc/modules.conf' allowed 
>you to attach an interface to a specific module, i.e.:
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>eth0	8139too
>eth1	eepro100
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>Of course, things have changed since, for SuSE, and it 
>could be slightly different from Debian.
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>Mark.
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>>Thanks
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>>sergio
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