On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 05:47:17AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
Dave Jones [off-list ref] writes:
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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 ?
Just assign mac addresses to names and run nameif early in boot.
A slight problem with that is that not all parts of /proc/sys get renamed
this way:
snapcount:/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf# ifconfig lo down
snapcount:/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf# ip link set name lo0 lo
snapcount:/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf# ls -l
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Mar 29 13:16 all
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Mar 29 13:16 default
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Mar 29 13:16 eth0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Mar 29 13:16 lo
Which can be very confusing. This problem exists in both 2.5 and 2.4.
Regards,
bert
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