Re: Switching Interfaces

From: Stephen (stephengpope_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/03/03 

Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 03:05:18 GMT

The cards cant be switched, they are both apart of the motherboard and the
reason i cant just switch the cables is because one of those cards is
patched into a on board switch. Its a redhat system.

"Bit Twister" <BitTwister@localhost.localdomain> wrote in message
news:slrnbg75tf.3rs.BitTwister@wb.home...
> On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 02:27:37 GMT, Stephen wrote:
> > Currently I have two network cards installed on my system. One coming
up as
> > eth0 and the other, eth1. My question is simple, I would like so that
the
> > cards were switched with respect to eth0 and eth1.
> >
>
> I switch cables myself, swap the cards and change /etc/modules.conf
> if required (mandrake, redhat)
>
> Please read
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> It always helps if you provide some basic system information and what
> you are having problems with when you post questions to the
> news groups.
>
> That info helps us to provide better examples/responses.
>
> Which window manager/desktop environment,
> they have different icons and file access locations.
>
> There are several "linuxes": Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake,
> Caldera, Corel, Yellow Lab, Black Lab, WinLinux, PhatLinux, Linux On A
> Floppy, slinux, Trinux, Peanut and
> (Rock, Armed, Stampede, Tiny. Power, Coyote) Linux, to name a few.
>
> Always provide what distro and release level you are using
> when you post questions (Redhat 6.1, Suse 5.0, Mandrake 8.2,...).
>
> Different distros have different commands, files, and links to files,
> pacakges and package/software managers.
> Even happens between release levels of the same distribution.
>
> Internet connection problem (ISP, cable, adsl, PPPoE, LAN, dialup, eth0.
USB..)
>
> If dhcp, which client (pump, dhcpcd, dhclient,...)
>
> Firewall (Bastille, Tiny, Smoothwall ..) , which type ipchains,
iptables,...
>
> Window manger, application problem/question give the name
> (gnome, kde, sawmill, kscd, kmix, eroaster, ...) Different
> window managers can have different programs.
>
> Give us error messages if you have them.
> Look in your logs, /var/log/messages on Redhat and Mandrake.
>
> If it is a shell/script question, give the shell name (bash, tch, zch,...)
>
> Example: Using RH 7.3, kde, dhcpcd though a cable modem on RR in Fortworth
Tx.
> ipchains Tinyfirewall is disabled. Still cannot get a lease.
>
>

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