Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread Tres Melton
This is my lilo (grub has the same thing) append=ether=5,0xe400,eth0 ether=10,0x300,eth1 and it ensures that eth0 is the one on irq5 and eth1 on irq10 On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 13:43 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: I have two NIC's in a server. One always comes up as eth0, the other always eth1. One is

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 19:53 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: fire-eyes wrote: I have two NIC's in a server. One always comes up as eth0, the other always eth1. One is on-board, the other is an add-on. I'd like to swap them around, that is to say, have the NIC that is currently eth0 become eth1,

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
fire-eyes wrote: I betchya there's a kernel paramater that you can shove into the bootloader to have passed on, just not sure what it is :) It seems you are correct. According to http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-8.html#lilo And

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Check the Gentoo udev docs which have links to a couple of good sites that are helpful. From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/04/20 Wed PM 02:55:07 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order? Neil Bothwick wrote: Alternatively

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:01:18 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Alternatively, you can use udev to give them whatever names you like. Does it actually work for renaming eth0 to eth1 and eth1 to eth0, or does it only work for renaming eth0 to lan0, for example? Probably not, because you could end up

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
Neil Bothwick wrote: Probably not, because you could end up with both having the same name at some point. Do you need those names, or just something consistent? Naming them lan0 and wan0 would seem better. If nothing else, it would make your config files and scripts more readable. Just in