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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:27:28 -0800
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:25:25 -0800 Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> wrote:

| On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:10:37PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
| > I just upgraded a box with 2 NICs in it to 2.5.66, and found
| > that what was eth0 in 2.4 is now eth1, and vice versa.
| > Is this phenomenon intentional ? documented ?
| > What caused it to do this ?
| 
| 	Is this a Red Hat system?  I encountered the same thing on a
| RHAS system.  Basically, Anaconda had controlled the module load order
| in /etc/modules.conf for 2.4.  Because my network drivers were built in
| in 2.5, they loaded in the order of the compile-in.  This turned out to
| be the reverse order.
| 	Swapping eth0 and eth1 in /etc/modules.conf fixed the problem
| for me.  This is not to say it is "Red Hat's fault" or that this is
| entirely the same situation, but I figured this would make a good
| datapoint.

I saw this same problem at home last night, not on a RH system,
so I think it's just a 2.5.lately thing.

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~Randy
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