On Mon,08.Feb.10, 01:15:43, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Perhaps the kernel brings eth1 into existence by first establishing it as > > eth0, then renaming it to eth1; then bringing the "real" eth0 into > > existence. > > The above can happen when you add NICs to the system. I hate UDEV for this, > and > it took me the better part of a day to figure this out a few months ago. UDEV > names the devices based on PCI bus slot number order. If you add a new PCI > NIC > into an empty slot with a lower number than that of the NIC already in the > system, UDEV makes the lowest slot number eth0 and the higher slot number > eth1.
I seem to recall such issues in the (quite distant) past. > The solution is to change the PCI slot order or create a UDEV static naming > rule based on MAC address that overrides the slot number ordering. This is already done in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules (which is actually generated by another rule). Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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