>----- Original Message ----- >> Okay. Somewhat unique situation. I have two network cards in my old PC >> (which talk to two different networks). I will be moving the PCI >> ethernet card over to my new computer permanently. >> >> The default is for it to assign eth0 to the PCI card and eth1 to the >> one on >> the motherboard. >> >> I am currently getting the new(er) one configured, but I also can't >> leave the old one down until I get the new one configured. It is a bit >> time consuming to keep swapping the ethernet card between the >> computers. (I >> know get a new card, but I hope to have this finished by the time it >> gets approved, ordered, shipped.) >> >> While I'm working on the new PC, it would be helpful if I could >> reference the ethernet port on the motherboard as eth1 (even though >> there is no >> eth0)... >> >> I have googled. Found various solutions all pointing in different >> directions, but everything I have tried so far has not worked. I think >> things I have found so far are out of date. >> >> Haven't tried specifying it as kernel parameters yet, what I saw said >> I needed to specify things like IRQ's (which I could find but... ><). >> Any pointers for doing this in a modern Linux system? Is it possible >> if there >> is no eth0? >> >> openSUSE 12.3 >> >> -- >> Paul Boniol >>
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Steven S. Critchfield <[email protected]>wrote: > Under centos/redhat, I know I have seen a few that lock the MAC address to > the specific eth device. It was part of a config file. Caused all kinds of > annoyance when cloning machines and the mac would change and then the eth > would be incremented and the network wouldn't come up. > > I know that isn't a lot of help, but it might help point you somewhere. > -- > Steven Critchfield [email protected] This is a clean install. The PCI card was in the machine when it was originally installed and ethernet cards were configured. I'm going from the default config files on the new install. I have a copy of the old system's config files for reference, but I am not putting them into the real boot/config locations. Paul -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
