Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752394AbXIHHVo (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 03:21:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751344AbXIHHVg (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 03:21:36 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:58546 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751201AbXIHHVg (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 03:21:36 -0400 Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 09:21:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: davide rossetti cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: origin of __tmp1930643048 network device name: kernel-space or user-space In-Reply-To: <6e7a378f0709070944l23ac5ca5te6e204e215457c59@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <6e7a378f0709041014m24448117s96d6f9b60fad7872@mail.gmail.com> <20070906133551.GA25155@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <6e7a378f0709060802r677b4a8emb9c8cb7530f8028b@mail.gmail.com> <6e7a378f0709070944l23ac5ca5te6e204e215457c59@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1182 Lines: 29 On Sep 7 2007 18:44, davide rossetti wrote: > >> > I'm assuming you're running some sort of Fedora/RHEL/ >> > derivative; this is what you get when you have a device that starts >> > out named ethX, but which needed to be renamed so that an already >> > configured ethX could be changed to that name. >> >> yes, it's FC6. >> >> > For the new device, either add a HWADDR in a ifcfg-ethX file for >> > that interface, add something to /etc/mactab, or add a udev rule. >> >> seems like HWADDR is incompatible with bonding.... there is some >> message using HWADDR as well as MASTER=bond0 and SLAVE=yes. > >for the records I worked-around it: >- problem seems to be the interface 'bond0', which is started first, >stops the ability to create another device named 'eth0' (WHY?) >- so I shifted all of the interface names: 0->1, 1->2,... >now it is ok. still I do not understand why bond0 seems to interfere >with eth0... Fedora says it all. - 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/