Resetting network devices between ifconfig level and desktop level

[Aaron Gray]

On 2 May 2011 22:13, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 17:54 +0100, Aaron Gray wrote:
>> Hope no one minds me writing to the devel list but I got no reply on user list.
>>
>> I have got inconsistent eth devices between what Fedora Gnome Desktop
>> is telling me and what ifconfig is telling me and what 'service
>> network restart' is telling me.
>
> Can you be more specific about what your problem is?  What's the
> disagreement, and what commands are not returning what you expect?

$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:18:E4:99:77
          inet addr:192.168.0.7  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::226:18ff:fee4:9977/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:76 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:11039 (10.7 KiB)  TX bytes:34609 (33.7 KiB)
          Interrupt:27 Base address:0x2000

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:24:01:ED:05:35
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0xec00

System>Preferences>Network Connections is giving eth0 and eth2

The Gnome Desktop connections icon in the top right of the screen is
giving eth1 disconnected and eth2 working.

I would like to look into this, but don't know where to start.

Aaron