Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750716AbXAIBP6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 20:15:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750726AbXAIBP6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 20:15:58 -0500 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:39574 "EHLO mail.inka.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750716AbXAIBP5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 20:15:57 -0500 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Strange ethN numbering problem. Organization: Private Site running Debian GNU/Linux In-Reply-To: <45A2E19F.4070307@metricsystems.com> X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.8-20050315 ("Scalpay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.13.4 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:15:55 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 668 Lines: 19 In article <45A2E19F.4070307@metricsystems.com> you wrote: > However, when the system comes up and attempt to do an ifconfig, the > 'ethN' numbers > have changed to a some what intermengled seriese starting with eth6... > eth10. maybe a system startup script is renaming them (in order to give them well known numbers)? What kind of distribution is that? is this a new problem? Have a look in /etc/mactab. Gruss Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/