On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 14:25 -0600, David Hoffman wrote: > On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:15:22 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic > <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> wrote: > > For example, one might have: > > > > alias eth0 le > > alias eth1 hme > > > > To swap assignment, simply change to: > > > > alias eth0 hme > > alias eth1 le > > > > If they are using same driver, modprobe.conf will read something like this: > > > > alias eth0 hme > > alias eht1 hme > > > > Aleksandar, > > I have tried making the swap in the modprobe.conf file and had no luck > with it. After reboot, it came back the same way. This was with two > different nics. > > I have eth0 as sk98lin and eth1 as 8139too, but originally they were > reversed. Originally, I tried swapping them, but something else was > causing them to keep coming back so that eth0 was the 8139. The > solution I provided earlier was the only way I could get it to work > and stay through reboots. > > I'm sure there are other ways to do it (besides swapping cables) but > that was what worked for me. > See my earlier response. You need to edit two places. modprobe.conf and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts where you change or remove the HWADDRESS on both interfaces. > > -- > > > David > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > There are only 10 kinds of people in this world, > those who understand binary, and those who don't. >
