How to map eth0 to a different interface

Thu Apr 7 16:32:13 UTC 2005

On Wednesday 06 April 2005 21:28, Suraj Chandrasekaran wrote:
> I am having a pc with 5 interface cards, 4 of which are gigi and
> one is 100mbps.
>
> the gigis are eth0 to eth3 and the other is eth4. I want to map
> eth0 to eth3 in the reverse, so that eth3 is called eth0 and eth2
> is eth1, eth1 is eth2 and eth0 is eth3.
>
> I tried the ~/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*, but am not successful.
> I am using kernl version 2.4.18.
>

I've not tested this suggestion myself but will the:

HWADDR 

( see /usr/share/doc/initscripts-xxxx/sysconfig.txt )

directive in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx

associate the correct device with the correct ethx interface?

Regards, Mike Klinke