"Kenneth E. Lussier" wrote:
> You shouldn't need to change modules.conf. All you need to do is put an
> append statement in your /etc/lilo.conf file to assign the module, irq, and
> I/O to eth0 or eth1. However, I have had trouble in the past using a 3c905
> pci card where it ALWAYS wants to be eth0 no matter what you do. This is
> because it is a pci card, and the pci probe at boot time finds it and makes
> it the 1st nic reguardless of what you tell it.
> This is what my append statement looks like:
> append="ether=10,0x210,eth0 ether=3,0x300,eth1"
> FYI,
> Kenny
> At 11:43 AM 2/15/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >Hey group,
> >
> >I'm helping out a friend with his firewall box for media one. He
> >has a stock Redhat 6.1 machine doing IP Masquerading for his
> >internal network. Now when we installed it the external nic was
> >found first and assigned eth0 (tulip driver) and the internal nic was
> >found second and thusly became eth1 (3c95x). This is causing some
> >problems with programs that are going out eth0 to get to the internal
> >network. So does anybody know if I can change /etc/conf.modules to
> >make the tulip driver be eth1 and the 3c95x be eth0? ie:
> >
> >change from:
> > alias eth0 tulip
> > alias eth1 3c95x
> >to:
> > alias eth1 tulip
> > alias eth0 3c95x
> >
> >I know I will have to make sure I update the IP addresses and boot
> >protocol for each interface, and I will have to update the ipchains
> >rules. The part I'm not sure of, is will everything be ok with
> >the kernel? (ie: the tulip card is found first, but assigned eth1,
> >will the kernel be ok with that?)
> >
> >-Matt
> >
> >--
> >Matthew W. Herbert x75764
> >Spectrum Advanced Applications
> >http://www.aprisma.com/
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i have also had the issue of a 3c509b pci wanting to only be eth0 , so i put it
there and ran the < other nic > eth1 as internal inwhich just happend to be a
tulip module.
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