Re: Switching between two network cards

[Andrei Badea <andrei.badea@movzx.net>]

Jason Rennie wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:54:35PM +0200, Andrei Badea wrote:
>
> > After my system starts, I want to switch to the other network card (the 
> > sk98lin one), but I only want its module loaded, so I do:
> >
> > ifdown eth0
> > rmmod fealnx
> > modprobe sk98lin
> > ifup eth0
>
> I'm no expert in networking.  Might be totally off base here.  But,
> could it be that fealnx gets eth0 and sk98lin gets eth1?  i.e. might
> this work?
>
> ifdown eth0
> modprobe sk98lin
> ifup eth1

This works. But I have to keep fealnx loaded, which is exactly what I 
don't want. If I unload fealnx before modprobing sk98lin, then sk98lin 
gets eth0 and it doesn't work.

Andrei

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