Re: [Sheflug] Changing distro woes

[John Southern <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 02 May 2007 18:44, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Always back up and save any personal data.

Agreed.

With multiple NICs in a box, for some reason Debian seems to find them for me 
in the reverse order to almost every other distro.
If it was only that simple I could write a quick ifconfig to up and down the 
interfaces and assign as I want.
Unfortunately, Debian appears to be in a world of its own and can actually 
flip NIC assignment everytime you reboot.

Debian had the old Net3 networking toolkit (net-tools) which allowed you to 
force which interface is assigned to which physical NIC.
I think this is now superceded by ifrename.

>From memory, you need to state the mac address in the /etc/mactab with the 
interface you need. Whereas ifrename is /etc/iftab

/etc/network/interface should be where to modify ifconfig for starting.

John






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