[wplug] two nics

Vanco, Don don.vanco at agilysys.com
Tue Mar 16 14:14:19 EST 2004


wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org wrote:
> I have two NICs for my laptop, running Gentoo.  I'm trying to
> set it up such that I can use any combination of one or both
> without confusing the system.  I want the regular NIC to be
> eth0, configured statically, and the wireless to be eth1,
> configured with dhcp.  If I boot with only one card inserted,
> the system tries to configure it as eth0 (statically) no
> matter which it is.  Is there any way to specify which card
> belongs to which interface?  I thought that modules.conf took care of
> this but I guess not. 

Not positive how Gentoo does it - but you can bind a NIC by its MAC.  Google
should turn up something...

Don
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