[Server-devel] How to configure XS with only one Ethernet port

David Leeming david at leeming-consulting.com
Wed Oct 27 02:25:38 EDT 2010


Tom

That seems clear enough to me! I will give it a go and confirm back. I had not seen that section or overlooked it. Tahnks. 

David Leeming
Solomon Islands Rural Link 


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Parker [mailto:tom at carrott.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, 27 October 2010 4:22 p.m.
To: Jerry Vonau
Cc: David Leeming; 'XS Devel'
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] How to configure XS with only one Ethernet port

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 23:31 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: 
> > Can I configure it to work with the single port working normally as
> > the LAN (i.e. functioning as the eth1 interface in default case)?
> 
> If all you need to do is rename eth0 to eth1 just run as root:
> xs-swapnics
>  
> and then reboot.

Indeed I was confused by this for a while too. I tried to re-write the
section on xs-swapnics to make it clear that it works in the one-nic
case too:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software#Network_Configuration_Notes

If someone can think of a clearer way to phrase it, please do.





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