Multiple network cards
Bob Marcan
bob at interstudio.homeunix.net
Wed May 12 07:41:27 UTC 2004
jludwig wrote:
>On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 17:54, Mike Harris wrote:
>
>
>>I have two network cards, on built-in to my motherboard, and a PCI one. For
>>each I've compiled the drivers as modules. (e100 for the builin, and 8139too
>>for the PCI). One is my internal network, and the other connects to the
>>internet.
>>They both work, but the problem is I can't specify which one is eth0 and eth1,
>>and occasionally they'll switch. In /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf
>>(I'm not sure of the difference of these files) I have the lines:
>>alias eth0 e100
>>alias eth1 8139too
>>This is what I'd like them set up to be.
>>Any ideas why it's not listening to me?
>>Mike Harris
>>
>>
>Having run multiple card machines for several years the only issue in
>setting the card order is modules.conf and now moddrobe.conf.
>>From my modules.conf;
>
>alias eth0 ne2k-pci
>alias eth1 8139too
>
>And from /etc/modprobe.conf.dist;
>alias eth0 ne2k-pci
>alias eth1 8139too
>
>Also as said before clean/fix tie ifcfg.ethx files also.
>
>
I have both cards the same type. What now?
They don't switch :-)
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