Mathias Brodala([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> Hi Wayne.
>
> Wayne Topa, 23.08.2007 18:21:
> > I have an Athlon k7 box, running testing, as my gateway. Due to a new
> > system install, I had not upgraded in a few weeks. On the 21st I
> > decided that it was time and did the upgrade overnight. This morning
> > I rebooted the box to upgrade my sid partition and when I rebooted
> > testing, I had lost my my localnet connections.
> >
> > Dmesg shows that the new udev package had decided to change eth0 to
> > eth1, for some reason. To use the localnet, I changed eth0 to eth1 in
> > /etc/network/interfaces, restarted networking and killed the firewall.
> > My localnet was back. I then rebooted and found that udev had now
> > changed the interface to eth3. This will be a PITA to users that don't
> > run their boxes 24/7.
Correction: udev stopped at eth2 NOT eth3. (I mistyped yet again) On a reboot
it came up again as eth2. So it is not as bad as I first thought.
>
> This definitely doesn't sound like udev were working correctly. Is there a
> /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules file? This one should contain the
> mapping of the ethernet devices based on their MAC address. Manual reordering
> should be done here, the file usually never ever gets touched after initial
> generation.
Yes there is. I've had problems with udev on systems that I was
trying out various interface cards (usb, pcmcia) on, so thats the first
file I checked. It is ignoring the, original, eth0 stansa that it was
not having a problem with and adding new eth interfaces.
Here it is, currently.
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# PCI device 10ec:8139 (8139too)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVER=="?*", SYSFS{address}=="00:48:54:d1:35:1c", NAME="eth0"
# USB device 2001:3c00 (rt2500usb)
#SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:11:95:e6:19:12",
ATTRS{type}=="1", NAME="wlan0"
# PCI device 0x10ec:0x8139 (8139too)
#SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:48:54:d1:35:1c",
NAME="eth1"
# PCI device 0x10ec:0x8139 (8139too)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:48:54:d1:35:1c", NAME="eth2"
------
Prior to this udev version if I removed all the non existant
interfaces from the /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules file,
it would work as expected. Something changed in this version as that
no longer works.
I found a fix (?) with a google search but I can't try it until I
finish downloading a new kernel. It was on an Ubuntu Forum so just in
case I'll list it here. Not Tested Yet so take it with a grain of
salt.
----- Possible Fix ------------------
Create/Edit a file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules with the following content
Code:
KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:10:5a:33:44:55" NAME="eth0"
KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:0c:44:55:66:77" NAME="eth1"
Just change the mac addresses to your own values from ifconfig.
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Thanks for the reply!
Wayne
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