Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751006AbXAIEGU (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 23:06:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751009AbXAIEGU (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 23:06:20 -0500 Received: from tzec.mtu.ru ([195.34.34.228]:3564 "EHLO tzec.mtu.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751006AbXAIEGU (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 23:06:20 -0500 From: Andrey Borzenkov Subject: Re: Strange ethN numbering problem. To: John Clark , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:06:15 +0300 References: <45A2F218.8010608@metricsystems.com> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-Id: <20070109040616.ED8C460BE75@tzec.mtu.ru> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1523 Lines: 43 John Clark wrote: > Bernd Eckenfels schrieb: >> 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. > > This is not a 'new' distribtution. In fact, the disk was used for a > previous hardware box, of the same > manufacturer and allegedly the same cpu mother board. > Then quite likely it remembered lower numbers for "old" interfaces and starts renaming with next available. > The kernel is 2.6.19.1 the at-that-moment current linux kernel. > > What should I look for in terms of interface renaming. I guess in udev rules; look also if you have /etc/iftab. The best you can do is asking in lists/groups dedicated to your distribution. -andrey > What is also sort > of strange is that they all > have the same 'mac' address vendor unique id... even though two > interfaces are for an Intel > ethernet chip, and the othe 4 are from the Marvel chip. > > Thanks > John Clark - 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/