Oops-sent this out last night but forgot to "reply to all" so here it is. Also, just changed the /etc/network/interfaces like I thought of below in effort to "switch back" to correct nic roles. I won't know if it worked, however, till I can get access to the server room.
David On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:44 PM, David Groos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:38 AM, David Groos <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Rebooted. TC don't boot. ifconfig still mentions eth2 and eth3. Still >> unable to launch oem-config. downloaded the install files to see if there >> was any documentation there but didn't find. Any thoughts? Thanks! >> David >> >> > To update briefly to those who didn't see the irc's from a few hours ago, > removing /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and rebooting indeed > changed eth2 and eth3 to eth0 and eth1. However at some time, quite > possibly last Friday, the ports took on opposite roles, the giga nic stopped > sending out ips and instead the 100 MB nic which connected to the building > wan and provided the connection to the internet all of a sudden started > being a dhcp server and in the process took down part of the network. > > I've tried just changing eth0 to eth1, and eth1 to eth0, then restarting > the network but that didn't work (RTNETLINK answers: No such process and > more). Tried to restart the dhcp3 server as well and rebooting but to no > avail. So in brief, the nics have switched their proper roles and I need to > get them back. I typed exactly the same info in the /etc/network/interfaces > file as is in that file in the server that's working--that Just had an > idea: Instead of changing the eth0 and eth1 around, would it make any > difference if I left those lines in place and changed the configs for each > nic? Anyway, any ideas how to switch the nics around would be great. > > Thanks! > David > >
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