Chris Kottaridis wrote:
I had a Dell machine and the motherboard went belly up. So, I took my
machine to a local Computer shop and the basically gave me a new chassis
and motherboard, but kept my disk drives. Things are mostly working, but
it, or rather me, seem to be a little bit confused about the on board
ethernet.
Doing an ifconfig -a shows:
# ifconfig -a
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:0F:C0:01:BC
inet addr:192.65.171.33 Bcast:192.65.171.63
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1A:4D:5E:F2:75
I am a little confused about udev remapping eth0 to eth1 and eth1 to
eth2. Why isn't there an eth0 ?
Look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for the ifcfg-eth? files. The
HWADDR = entries in the appropriate files need to match the real MAC
address from your new motherboard - that ifconfig displays. If they
don't match, the interface won't come up. You probably have some
invalid copies now and some new copies.
So, how do I get Linux to recognize the new motherboard's ethernet card
as eth0 instead of eth2 ?
Edit/rename the ifcfg-eth? files to make the filename, DEVICE= and
HWADDR= settings match what you want.
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Les Mikesell
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