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The relevant file is /etc/network/interfaces - see man 5 interfaces.


On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:27 +0300, Noam Rathaus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I moved an HD from one computer to another (not related to the grub issue 
> :D), 
> and because there is a different network card, eth0 is not longer present and 
> now eth1 is the deacto network card.
> 
> I don't want to reconfigure a few products I have bounded to eth0 (mainly 
> firewall rules).
> 
> How can I "force" it to use the new network card driver on eth0 instead of 
> eth1?
> 
> Or basically, where is it written that eth0 is 'thismodule' while eth1 
> is 'thisothermodule'?
> 
> I tried modprobe.conf/modules.conf:
> alias eth0 e1000e
> 
> Without success - it still - after modprobe e1000e - gives me access to it 
> only through eth1
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#!/bin/sh
# Checks if the given interface matches the given ethernet MAC
# if it does it exits with 0 status, if it doesn't then it exists
# with 1 (error) status.

set -e

export LANG=C

if [ ! -n "$1" -o ! -n "$2" ] ; then
        echo "Usage: $0 IFACE targetMAC"
        exit 1
fi
iface="$1"
targetmac=`echo "$2" | sed -e 'y/ABCDEF/abcdef/'`
mac=$(/sbin/ifconfig "$iface" | sed -n -e '/^.*HWaddr 
\([:[:xdigit:]]*\).*/{s//\1/;y/ABCDEF/abcdef/;p;q;}')

if [ "$targetmac" = "$mac" ]; then exit 0; else exit 1; fi

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