Disable eth0 and use eth1 ?

kikinovak · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 5:12 am Post subject: Disable eth0 and use eth1 ?

Hi,

I just went through my first series of Gentoo installs on a series of sandboxes. I *almost* got everything right on the first time (thanks to the excellent documentation). Now I've got a few rough edges left.

One of my machines has two ethernet cards, eth0 and eth1. eth1 is connected to a switch that leads to the DHCP server, so I want to use that.

On a RHEL system, I would edit respectively ONBOOT=no and ONBOOT=yes in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1. What's the Gentoo-specific syntax to do that?

For eth1, I have config_eth1=( "dhcp" ) in /etc/conf.d/net.
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cach0rr0 · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 5:22 am Post subject:

two quick ways come to mind
change up RC_PLUG_SERVICES in /etc/conf.d/rc
or simply delete /etc/init.d/net.eth0

that keeps net.eth0 from running on startup

to get net.eth1 running on startup