help starting eth2 before eth1 for routing purpose

[Omar Hasan]

Thank you very much for your reply.  I have
reconfigured my eths.

Best Regards,

Omar

--- RR <ranjtech at gmail.com> wrote:

> OM, reconfiguring is extremely simple and you'll
> probably have an
> easier time doing that than the alternative solution
> unless there are
> better solutions than what I can think of off the
> top of my head.
> 
> 1) reconfiguring: If eth2 and eth1 are the same type
> of NICs, go to
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and modify the
> properties of ifcfg-eth2
> and ifcfg-eth1 and then type "service network
> restart" at command line
> and your NICs would be reconfigured to each other's
> addresses etc.
> 
> 2) no reconfiguring: Turn off network activation
> during startup:
> chkconfig network stop
> then in place the lines in the file
> /etc/rc3.d/S99local
> ifup eth2
> ifup eth1
> 
> in the above mentioned order and I'm guessing that
> would startup eth2
> before eth1.
> 
> never tried it but logically it might work.
> 
> Hope it helps
> \R
> 
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