Re: network issue

On 1 Aug 2003 at 19:59, Toros Massarlian wrote:

> I have a problem with my network i have a Cisco 350 PCMCIA wirless
> card and a built in e100 network card. When linux starts after it has
> loaded the PC card services and the wireless card starts working it
> goes ahead and configures the network. For some reason my wireless 
is
> assigned to eth0 which is used for the Ethernet card. What i wanna
> know is if that's how it's suppose to work. Anytime i open the 
network
> configuration in RedHat 9 it tells me that the wireless card is
> assigned to eth0 which is the address for the Ethernet card. The
> wireless works fine otherwise. I want to be able to tell the 
wireless
> to take address eth1 not eth0 as it should. With my current
> configuration i can't use both wireless and wired simultaneously. 

Perhaps this is a feature instead of a bug...  Maybe RedHat
wanted it that way so that the dirst interface is always eth0.

I'd think twice about changing it especially since you say you can't
use both at the same time.

I can't say for sure this is what RedHat intended, but it sounds 
reasonable.  

BTW eth0 eth1, are not addresses but simply names, and they
have no pre-defined meaning.  You could call them Fred and Tom
for all that Linux cares.

It is occcasionally nice to have the names nailed down to
specific interfaces so that you can set up scripts to
do certain things or to run Shorewall etc.  Could be
that there is wa way in RH to lock the names.

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