Two Nic, how to set which is eth0 and which is eth1

greg · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 42 Location: HFX/NS/CA

I've had two network cards in my machine for well over a year without trouble. Since my last update which included the baselayout my cards have swapped eth0 became eth1 and eth1->eth0. This cause my internet connection fail and I spend a while trying to figure out what is wrong until I ran 'dhcp eth1' and got an IP... Is there a way to set which driver is eth0/1? For now I've disable the 2nd nic's kernel modules so they to load and take eth0, given that I'm not using the second nic right now.

Greg

thofra · n00b Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 6

a short question
do you have two identical network cards(both REALTEK 8139)?

thofra · n00b Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 6

make two entries in /etc/modules.conf

e.g.
alias eth0 8139too
alias eth1 3c59x

greg · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 42 Location: HFX/NS/CA

The network cards are different. Thanks a lot for the information!

Greg

Vxster · n00b Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 66 Location: London, UK

Just a quick question...if I have both of my NIC drivers compiled in to the kernel (eepro100 and tigon3), how do I choose which is which?

slartibartfasz · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 2:22 pm Post subject:

see 'dmesg | grep eth', thats where the cards are identified...
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di1bert · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 963 Location: Oslo, Norway

Will this only work if the NIC drivers are compiled as modules ?
I ask as I have two NIC's in this machine and I compile the drivers into the kernel (don't ask me why though)...

Would it be possible to do something similar ?

--di1bert (~matt)