eth0 <-> eth1

[Eric Smith <Eric.Smith@fruitcom.com>]

According to Daniel Serodio on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 07:20:01PM -0200:
> 	If your NIC's are different, try creating a file in /etc/modutils (eg,
> 'nic') with eg:
> 
> alias eth0 ne2k-pci
> alias eth1 fealnx
> 
> 	Run 'update-modules'. Then 'apt-get install ipmasq'. That's how I do it
> (actually, I compiled my own kernel, but this should work for any kernel
> where the NIC's drivers are modules).
> 	Hope this helped.
> 


thanx I tried that before and again now - get same non-result viz.

[root@cherry ~]  $ head /etc/modutils/ethernet
alias eth0 8139too
alias eth1 3c59x

[root@cherry ~]  $ ifconfig>/tmp/if1

[root@cherry ~]  $ update-modules

[root@cherry ~]  $ ifconfig>/tmp/if2

[root@cherry ~]  $ diff /tmp/if1 /tmp/if2
13,14c13,14
<           RX packets:74002 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
<           TX packets:3801 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
---
>           RX packets:75669 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:4296 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
16c16
<           RX bytes:5181078 (4.9 Mb)  TX bytes:341950 (333.9 Kb)
---
>           RX bytes:5297365 (5.0 Mb)  TX bytes:378347 (369.4 Kb)
22,23c22,23
<           RX packets:372464 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
<           TX packets:372464 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
---
>           RX packets:403035 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:403035 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
25c25
<           RX bytes:37332423 (35.6 Mb)  TX bytes:37332423 (35.6 Mb)
---
>           RX bytes:39611275 (37.7 Mb)  TX bytes:39611275 (37.7 Mb)

:(

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