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Will Morton wrote:
| Greetings UMLers;
|
| I am booting a custom 2.6.24.4 UML kernel, running a debian etch guest
| created using debootstrap. I am booting using the kernel command
| line:
|
| root=/dev/ubda ubd0=./etch.rootfs ubd1=./etch.swapfs mem=128M
| eth0=tuntap,,,192.168.23.5
|
| However, the network interface that gets created isn't eth0 - it's
| ethN, where N increments every time I boot the guest (I'm now on
| eth19). This prevents the normal boot-time network config from
| running properly. Now I can bugger about with a custom script that
| uses something like ifconfig `ifconfig -a | grep eth | awk '{print
| $1}'` ... but it seems there must be a better way, and in any case I
| want to use more than one network device on some of my guests.
|
| I'm not sure what's causing this, but I notice this line in dmesg:
|
| [42949373.660000] Choosing a random ethernet address for device eth0
|
| If it's picking a different mac address each boot, does this result in
| the kernel thinking it's a different device and hence assigning it a
| different name?
Yes.
| How do I stop it doing this?
Specify one on the command line.
Antoine
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