Category Archives: Networking

Debian eth0, eth1, eth2, in Virtualbox or VMware Virtual machines when copying

By jacob | Published: November 13, 2009
Debian uses udev. Udev handles mapping MAC’s to the appropriate /dev/eth(X) file. If you copy a Virtual machine, Udev will remember the MAC address of the old NIC. When you copy the machine, the virtual host usually generates a new MAC address for the VM. Udev will assign the new Device to eth1, eth2, and so [...]
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Debian 4.0r4 NIC bonding

By jacob | Published: September 17, 2008
Install package ifenslave-2.6. apt-get install ifenslave make sure the real NICs kernel modules are loaded automatically modprobe --list | grep -i bonding edit /etc/network/interfaces to look like this: auto bond0 iface bond0 inet static address 192.168.1.59 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 up /sbin/ifenslave bond0 eth0 eth1 down /sbin/ifenslave -d bond0 eth0 eth1 broadcast 192.168.1.255 make sure to remove ALL of the lines refering to old eth0 or eth1 settings. add [...]
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