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?
If you compile them as modules for the server, you should be able to use modules.conf to set the alias between the device name and the ethx bit.
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