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spyder

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assign specific card to interface?

how do you assign a specific card to be say eth0 and eth1, how do i make eth0 bind to the MAC of the card iwantto be eth0, because of course it got them backwards

phrakture

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Re: assign specific card to interface?

well, two things here.... if they both have different modules, it'll be easiest to add the following in /etc/modprobe.com:

alias eth0 module-for-card-1
alias eth1 module-for-card-2

mode elegant, though, is to use udev to do it... and beyond that, you can use nameif.  This thread has all the details:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=8676

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spyder

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Re: assign specific card to interface?

i cant assign by modules because the cards use the same module (3c59x)

spyder

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Re: assign specific card to interface?

going to try the udev method.....