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From: Patrick Benoit <ppbnode@×××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Swapping NIC Order on a 2.6 kernel
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 01:20:16
Message-Id: 20050422022017.5305b586@desktop
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Swapping NIC Order on a 2.6 kernel by Eric Paynter
1 On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:33:53 -0700 (PDT)
2 Eric Paynter <eric@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Thu, April 21, 2005 7:44 am, fire-eyes said:
5 > > Some of you may have seen my posts regarding this on gentoo-user,
6 > > thought i'd try here too.
7 > >
8 > > I runa 2.6 kernel. I have two NIC's. One is a built-in 100Mbps, and the
9 > > second is a 64-bit PCI 1000Mbps NIC. The 100Mbps comes up as eth0, the
10 > > 10000 as eth1. I want to switch this around.
11 >
12 > If you're loading the drivers as modules, just change the order they load
13 > in. If you've built a module-less kernel then you're pretty much sol
14 > because it will name them as it detects them.
15 >
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17 The situation is even worst than that because I remember that in early releases of 2.6 kernel the way the kernel detect NIC's change from one version to another and so broke your network setup.
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19 Patrick Benoit
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