Two Nic, how to set which is eth0 and which is eth1

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greg · Post by **greg** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 10:24 am

I've had two network cards in my machine for well over a year without trouble. Since my last update which included the baselayout my cards have swapped eth0 became eth1 and eth1->eth0. This cause my internet connection fail and I spend a while trying to figure out what is wrong until I ran 'dhcp eth1' and got an IP... Is there a way to set which driver is eth0/1? For now I've disable the 2nd nic's kernel modules so they to load and take eth0, given that I'm not using the second nic right now.

Greg

thofra · Post by **thofra** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:09 am

a short question
do you have two identical network cards(both REALTEK 8139)?

thofra · Post by **thofra** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:13 am

make two entries in /etc/modules.conf

e.g.
alias eth0 8139too
alias eth1 3c59x

greg · Post by **greg** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:41 am

The network cards are different. Thanks a lot for the information!

Greg

Vxster · Post by **Vxster** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 2:16 pm

Just a quick question...if I have both of my NIC drivers compiled in to the kernel (eepro100 and tigon3), how do I choose which is which?

slartibartfasz · Post by **slartibartfasz** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 2:22 pm

see 'dmesg | grep eth', thats where the cards are identified...

di1bert · Post by **di1bert** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 2:29 am

Will this only work if the NIC drivers are compiled as modules ?
I ask as I have two NIC's in this machine and I compile the drivers into the kernel (don't ask me why though)...

Would it be possible to do something similar ?

--di1bert (~matt)