Hi, I am trying to set up a linux box with 5 N/W cards of which one is 10/100/1000T and the others are 10/100T. I connected all the cards and turned on the machine. I wanted to force eth0 to be the 1000T cards but the cards get allotted eth0 to eth4 randomly. Is there some way wherein I can force my 1000T card to be eth0. Also I want to turn off auto negotation & flow control on the 1000T card. How can I do this. Can someone please help. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
Yup. I had the same problem. Soltuion: use nameif You can call any interface anything you want. Turning off auto negotiation and flow control may be an option when you load the moadule (check docs)-- example: if it is a 3com 100mbps 905b - you may be able to use ethtool to change it. -----Original Message----- From: lartc-admin@mailman.ds9a.nl [mailto:lartc-admin@mailman.ds9a.nl] On Behalf Of anupam chomal Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 3:51 AM To: lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl Subject: [LARTC] Problem with multiple N/W cards Hi, I am trying to set up a linux box with 5 N/W cards of which one is 10/100/1000T and the others are 10/100T. I connected all the cards and turned on the machine. I wanted to force eth0 to be the 1000T cards but the cards get allotted eth0 to eth4 randomly. Is there some way wherein I can force my 1000T card to be eth0. Also I want to turn off auto negotation & flow control on the 1000T card. How can I do this. Can someone please help. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:20:45PM +0530, anupam chomal wrote:> I am trying to set up a linux box with 5 N/W cards of which one is > 10/100/1000T and the others are 10/100T. I connected all the cards and > turned on the machine. I wanted to force eth0 to be the 1000T cards but > the cards get allotted eth0 to eth4 randomly. Is there some way wherein I > can force my 1000T card to be eth0.You can also create an alias for the device driver. I''m not that well-versed in the various distribution and kernel version differences, but this is how I do it. If running a 2.4 kernel, edit /etc/modules.conf (or if running Debian, edit /etc/modutils/alias, and afterward run update-modules) and add alias eth0 <driver name> where <driver name> is the name of the device driver module for your gigabit card, say, e1000. If running 2.6, add the same line to /etc/modprobe.d/aliases . A reboot afterward may do the trick if you don''t have an update-modules command that will get the right aliases going. Hope that helps. -- ****************************************************************** Glen W. Mabey Glen.Mabey@usu.edu http://mabeys.homelinux.com/glen/ ****************************************************************** _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/