So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0 and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as eth0.
I was told here about the netdev argument to the kernel. I tried about 9 different ways of using this, but the documentation isn't exactly as clear as it could be. Info: without swapping: eth0: IRQ11, I/O 0xa800 eth1: IRQ10, I/O 0xa400 I tried all of the following arguments passed to the kernel: netdev=11,0xa400,eth0 netdev=11,0xa400,eth0 netdev=10,0xa800,eth1 netdev=10,0xa800,eth1 netdev=11,0xa400,eth0 netdev=10,a800,eth1 netdev=11,a400,eth0 netdev=eth1,eth0 netdev="eth1,eth0" "netdev=eth1,eth0" netdev=eth1,eth0 netdev=eth0,eth1 netdev=eth0,eth1 netdev=eth1,eth0 Then I got tired of rebooting. Not one did I get them to swap, nor did the kernel complain about bad options etc. This is a test system, my actual goal is to swap eth0 and eth1 on a server. This server has one 32-bit 100Mbps NIC, and one 64-bit 1000Mbps NIC. I can't constantly reboot that server, so I threw in a second in my workstation to try and figure this out. I have to have this order for reasons that are too annoying to get into. Any more ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
