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From:	fire-eyes <sgtphou@×××××××××.org>
To:	gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-server] Swapping NIC Order on a 2.6 kernel
Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:01:59
Message-Id:	`1114095723.2434.27.camel@localhost`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-server] Swapping NIC Order on a 2.6 kernel by Patrick Lauer

1	On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 16:55 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote:
2	> On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:44 -0400, fire-eyes wrote:
3	> > Some of you may have seen my posts regarding this on gentoo-user,
4	> > thought i'd try here too.
5	> >
6	> > I runa 2.6 kernel. I have two NIC's. One is a built-in 100Mbps, and the
7	> > second is a 64-bit PCI 1000Mbps NIC. The 100Mbps comes up as eth0, the
8	> > 10000 as eth1. I want to switch this around.
9	>
10	> Maybe I'm a bit dense, but why?
11	> There's nothing that makes eth0 the "preferred" NIC.
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13	Personal preferance and the way things are Done(TM) here :)
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