Jan: On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 12:33:17AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 12:56:47PM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > > I have two Ethernet cards (NICs) in a PII-300. The first recognized is > > an NE2000 ISA clone at IRQ10, and the second is a PCI at (shared) IRQ > > 12. > > > > I would like the second (the PCI) to be assigned as ETH0, and the first > > (ISA) to be ETH1. > > I have rather similar problem. And what is the solution when the cards > are the same type? -- The closest I got is: > > nameif (8) - name network interfaces based on MAC addresses > > But I couldn't find nameif called from anywhere--so I guess the right > thing to do would be to call it from /etc/init.d/networking or > /etc/networking/interfaces.
That seemed like such a good suggestion. I created scripts to assign the desired names to the desired MAC addresses and placed them in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/, and then added invocation in the interfaces file, but I keep getting the messages (in syslog): Dec 28 19:11:31 ve6wvc nameif: cannot change name of eth1 to eth0: File exists Dec 28 19:11:31 ve6wvc nameif: cannot change name of eth0 to eth1: Device or resource busy A typical script was "eth0.sh": #!/bin/sh # Set up eth0 as the 3COM card (system sets it to eth1 at boot) /sbin/nameif -s eth0 00:50:da:08:f0:4a exit 0 with invocation in interfaces as: auto eth0 eth1 iface eth0 inet static pre-up /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/eth0.sh address 192.168.0.3 network 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 iface eth1 inet static pre-up /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/eth1.sh address 192.168.0.30 network 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 Unfortunately it failed as noted above, even though I downed the network and then restarted it. Any ideas or insights? Merry Christmas to you too. Dean > Whoopy Xmas. > Jan. > > > I've fiddled with the ether= append line for the kernel, and also the > > contents of the interfaces file in /etc/network to no avail. > > > > -- > Jan Minar Had I any humility, I would be perfect. -- Dean Provins 50.950333,-114.037916 [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID at at pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371: 0x9643AE65 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]