Re: Network interface name

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 01:10:13PM +0900, penguin wrote:
> I have a server with two network interfaces.
> Both of network cards are the products made from Broadcom.
> 1st network Interface name's is eth0.
> 2st network Interface name's is eth1.
> 
> I want to change the 1st network interface name into eth1, 
> and to change the 2nd network interface name into eth0.
> Is this possible?

Sure.  Edit the cfg files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*
Each file can take a parameter HWADDR that has the hardware address of
the device it's for.  I don't have time to look up the exact syntax, but
this should get you going in the right direction.

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