[ale] eth0 vs eth1

[Joe Knapka]

"Gary S. Mackay" wrote:
> 
> Here's a weird one. I have a 3com NIC in my linux server/masq box. Working
> fine. I added a second NIC (tried smc-ultra and rtl8139) and no matter how I
> configure conf.modules, the 3com NIC always comes up as eth0. I wanted it to
> stay connected to my internal lan and the cheapy card to be connected to the
> cable-modem to be installed tomorrow, oops, today. Is this tuesday? All of the
> NICs work fine, I just can not get the 3com one to be eth1. Any ideas? For now
> I will connect it to the cable modem and the rtl8139 to my internal 100mbit
> lan.

If you manually modprobe the relevant modules, what happens?

You could just let eth1 be your cable connection and eth0 be your
internal LAN.

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