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Re: 2 NIC's, assigned in wrong order



On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Dean Allen Provins wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I have two Ethernet cards (NICs) in a PII-300.  The first recognized is
> an NE2000 ISA clone at IRQ10, and the second is a PCI at (shared) IRQ
> 12.
>
> I would like the second (the PCI) to be assigned as ETH0, and the first
> (ISA) to be ETH1.
>
> I've fiddled with the ether= append line for the kernel, and also the
> contents of the interfaces file in /etc/network to no avail.

Simply try swapping in /etc/modules.conf where you for example have a
entry reading:
alias eth0 3c59x
alias eth1 e1000
and swap eth1 and eth0 there...
>
> Anyone know how to force the assignment without resorting to "ifconfig"
> and "route" directly?
>
> Dean
>
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