On 03/19/2013 07:48 AM, Paul Boniol wrote:
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things I have found so far are out of date.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
There is transition on how ethernet interfaces are managed, Paul. Do
you get a response from "man 5 iftab" ?
Use to was, one could specify the hardware MAC explicitly to eth0, eth1
and so on in a file /etc/iftab. This has been deprecated in favor of
putting the MAC into the ifcfg_ethn. This is also somewhat scrambled by
whatever level of NetworkManager is involved.
Happy hunting...
Howard
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