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On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:44 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: |
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> Some of you may have seen my posts regarding this on gentoo-user, |
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> thought i'd try here too. |
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> I runa 2.6 kernel. I have two NIC's. One is a built-in 100Mbps, and the |
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> second is a 64-bit PCI 1000Mbps NIC. The 100Mbps comes up as eth0, the |
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> 10000 as eth1. I want to switch this around. |
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Maybe I'm a bit dense, but why? |
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There's nothing that makes eth0 the "preferred" NIC. |
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> I've tried so many variations of netdev passed to grub it would take 10 |
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> minutes to type out. I have never once gotten them to switch. These are |
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> built in drivers. |
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Use udev rules to map the NIC to specific /dev/ targets? |
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> I won't use modules as I disable module loading |
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> capabilities due to security reasons. |
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> Has anyone been through this fun? |
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No ;-) |
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I just set the default route on eth21 and ignore all other 20 network |
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