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controlling the 'eth0' device that gets detect by ifconfig

From	Jim Anderson <jjanderson52000@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.networking
Subject	controlling the 'eth0' device that gets detect by ifconfig
Date	2012-07-27 12:07 -0400
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<juuf5f$j2u$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink)

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I used to run Kubuntu linux and my network addresses would be detected 
properly during startup. I have switched to crunchbang linux and my 
network runs ok except on one PC the OS is not detecting the correct
port for eth0 and I don't know how to fix the problem.

The network has two routers, one wireless and one wired using ethernet
ports. The wired router is connected to a DSL line so all of the wired
PCs should be directed to that router to connect to the world. 
Unfortunately, the problem PC detects the wireless router for the
'eth0' device.

When I run the route command, the default address is 192.168.2.1, the
address of the wireless router, not 192.168.0.1, the address of the 
wired router. If I disconnect the wireless router and reboot, then I 
think it is detected the correct router, but when I run ifconfig, the
ethernet address is in inet6, not an inet4 address.

If there a way to force the inet4 address of the wired router to be 
detected?

Jim Anderson

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controlling the 'eth0' device that gets detect by ifconfig Jim Anderson <jjanderson52000@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-27 12:07 -0400
  Re: controlling the 'eth0' device that gets detect by ifconfig Alastair Black <abqab.nemo@example.net> - 2012-07-27 11:48 -0600
    Re: controlling the 'eth0' device that gets detect by ifconfig Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> - 2012-07-28 10:34 -0700
  Re: controlling the 'eth0' device that gets detect by ifconfig Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-07-28 18:32 +0100
    Re: controlling the 'eth0' device that gets detect by ifconfig Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-07-28 21:50 +0000
  Re: controlling the 'eth0' device that gets detect by ifconfig Gordon <Gordon@clear.net.nz> - 2012-08-10 06:13 +0000

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