I think this is related to what you are doing but I'm not sure. I've found both in Linux and in BSD that they read the cards on the PCI bus in either a bottom to top or a top to bottom order. (Linux does one FreeBSD does the other and I can't remember which is which right now.) I'm running a slower nic to my cable modem than to my Lan (Cable is less than 10mbps so why not?) What I found was that in order to have the cards and *nix in sync I had to reverse the physical location of the the cards in the PCI slots. Then it auto recognized the other card as eth0 and I assigned IP's accordingly. This worked... Don't know why it happens and since it works never really tried to find out. It was just the only way I could get the slower card to be connected to the outside world and have my lan connectivity right as well. It's an older pent 233 system so that may affect things as well (still has ISA slots)
James On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 09:25, Ron Stodden wrote: > hans privat wrote: > > > if I change the two cards, so that I have eth0 as IP 10.0.0.10 and eth1 > > has the IP 192.168.10.8, then I'm running into problems with ssh-login > > from local or remote. > > > > Now my very interesting question : > > Is this behavior predesigned on linux, or do I have a possibility to > > make a change in a script anywhere on the linux-system, so that eth0 can > > have also an IP 10.0.0.10 or any other IP, and the eth1 is having the > > "local-network" adress of 192.168.10.1 (or any other IP) and a login > > with ssh root@jojo will be successfully. > > The situation is certainly unsatisfactory, and the solution I use > involves making all the NICs the same speed, so that they are > interchangeable and you don't care which one the kernel decides is eth0. > > man arp is a hot clue. The arp command probably sets up which is eth0, > 1, etc based not on your assigned IP address but based on the NIC's MAC > address, which is really what you want. The problem here is that arp > seems to be using the MAC of whatever is at the other end of the link. > > Anybody have an answer to this riddle? > > -- > Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] > troels... now updated to use sunet.se server. > See: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/ > > > > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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