Changing network card binding order in Redhat linux AS 2,1

[Praveen R]

How to change network card binding order incase of dual NIC as we can change in MS windows network properties.

Regards
Praveen R

[Mark Grant]

Do you mean the order of which ip addresses get assigned?

Red Hat's method of doing this boggles my mind. I can not believe they thought this was the easiest way to do it (I have actually logged on to a Red Hat box for the first time in a long time to look at this).

All the interface cards are called eth0, eth1,eth2 etc etc etc

It looks to me like you need to have a config file "ifcfg-eth?" where the ? is which NIC you are talking about. In here you put which IP and stuff you want to be associated with this NIC. It gets a lot more painful if you start looking at their ifup and the ifup-aliases file but it looks like you probably don't need to.

I hope somebody shows me I'm wrong here because I seem to be able to achieve the same thing in three lines on most systems.

[Claudio Cilloni]

I think what Mark is saying is right. in RH9 and RH73 systems the ifcfg-eth0 file is located in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/. It contains all is needed to configure a network card.

Ciao!
Claudio

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

As far as which card gets picked first, that is done by its position along the pci bus. No choice there.


Everything else is controlled by the files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

The order starts with ifcfg-eth0 then ifcfg-eth0:1 etc.

The actual assignment need not be in numeric order.

SEP