Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752743AbXBKNPH (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:15:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752729AbXBKNPH (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:15:07 -0500 Received: from tag.witbe.net ([81.88.96.48]:44783 "EHLO tag.witbe.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752743AbXBKNPG (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:15:06 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Paul Rolland" To: "'Benoit Boissinot'" , , "'Olaf Hering'" Cc: "'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" Subject: RE: 2.6.20/2.6.20-rc7 : ethX renumbered Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:14:15 +0100 Organization: AS2917.net Message-ID: <012001c74dde$87a16bd0$2101a8c0@donald> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <40f323d00702110504i3a7b1421p9309eac1cfd75553@mail.gmail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Thread-Index: AcdN3Sb0WA52hll5Ru6mIGWeM5Qj1QAARy2g Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 795 Lines: 28 Hello Benoit, > usually distro enable persistent interface naming with udev, check > /etc/iftab and see if you have something like > /etc/udev/something-iftab.rules Found this : # This file assigns persistent names to network interfaces. # See iftab(5) for syntax. eth0 mac 00:11:d8:a9:c0:c2 arp 1 ra0 mac 00:11:d8:b9:27:7e arp 1 As these are no MAC on my machine, I suspect this is the reason for the renaming. I'm trying Olaf's patch to check the message is printed, and next boot is without this crap in this /etc/iftab file. Regards, Paul - 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/