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Unclethommy
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 Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject: Changing eth1 to eth0 [solved] |
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Hi there, I was wondering if someone could help me with a simple problem, i used to have two NIC cards (one on board and one PCI card) for some reason i couldnt get the onboard to work hence I had to buy the PCI card, however , when i installed gentoo, it detected both, and i created the sumbolic links as instructed in the gentoo installation document. I have since then changed motherboards yet I still use my PCI NIC, obviously there is now only one network card but this was currently allocated to eth1. I was wondering if there was a simple way to change this to net.eth0? I ask this as most programs automatically try to install with a network connection pointing to eth0. I thought I would save the hassle of editting the config files and just change the connection from eth1 to eth0. Could someone help me on the matter? I tried to simply delete the symulink eth1 in /etc/init.d and then tried to load the eth0 symulink instead but it complains that the network interface is not detected on boot. The driver for the PCI NIC is compiled in the kernel. when i do a ifconfig -a , i get :
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:56:AF:00:04:A5
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:543 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:514 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:609622 (595.3 Kb) TX bytes:62704 (61.2 Kb)
Interrupt:169 Base address:0xb400
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7609 (7.4 Kb) TX bytes:7609 (7.4 Kb)
I am presuming something is binding the NIC driver to eth1.... but i dont know how 
how can i change eth1 to eth0 easily?
Last edited by Unclethommy on Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:32 am; edited 1 time in total |
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | | grep eth /etc/udev/rules.d/* |
You'll probably see that 75-persistent-net-generator.rules is setting it to eth1 - change that to eth0. Or better still, a meaningful term such as "lan". |
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Unclethommy
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Great, that did the trick! I learn something too 
Thanks for the prompt reply |
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