I have 2 ethernet cards, one for my ADSL link and one for my network,
During 8,2b4 install, I accidentally configured the ADSL link to use the
wrong card (eth0 and eth1 were exchanged wrt my usual 8.1 setup due to
module loading order).

After my system was up, I tried to change this with draknet. This proved
to be impossible.

First of all, I find it very unintuitive that when I edit a network link
in the "expert" mode and close the respective panel, I need to click
"apply" in the main panel to actually commit the changes.

For changing the ADSL ethernet card setting I needed to restart the
wizard. This cleared all my (correctly entered) provider login data.

So far only nuisances, nothing serious.

I changed the ethernet card for the ADSL link with the wizard to "eth1".
When trying to restart the connection, it failed. Inspection showed
that the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/net_cnx_up script had still
"eth0" hardcoded as the network device to use for the adsl link.
The /etc/sysconfig/draknet* files now had (correctly) "eth1", but the
command line parameter in net_cnx_up overrides that setting.

I tried several other mover with draknet, but net_cnx_up did not change.

Of course the problem was easily solved with vi by replacing eth0 with
eth1 in net_cnx_up, but that's probably not what most users would do.

Martin

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Martin Wilck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Physicist & Linux system engineer at FSC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



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