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Old 04-27-2005, 06:20 PM   #1
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need eth2 to be eth0


Mandrake is detecting a couple of firewire ports as eth0 and eth1. I don't use these ports. I would like to assign my ethernet card to eth0 (right now it is eth2). How do I do this?
 
Old 04-27-2005, 07:17 PM   #2
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Depends. If you use udev then a udev rule will do the trick

Code:
KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}="NIC MAC Address", NAME="eth0"
KERNEL="eth*"
Should do it (I think) although note that this will make all other net interfaces disappear and therefore may surprise you in the future should you ever add another network card.

As another option add a line "alias eth1394 none" to /etc/modprobe.conf which will prevent the firewire network module from loading in the first place.
 
  


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