Networking Follies

Garry T. Williams gtwilliams at gmail.com
Sun Jul 9 10:23:06 UTC 2006


On Saturday 08 July 2006 22:51, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:00:01PM -0400, Garry T. Williams wrote:

[snip]

> > You want to install the initscripts update.  It should eliminate
> > the devXXXX interfaces.
> 
> I did so, and rebooted. The system came up and ran the network
> initscript. I got a connection on eth0. I did not check to see if
> eth1 was set up correctly.
> 
> I then turn on NM. It broke my connection. eth1 had been replaced
> with a mutant device name:
> 
> dev1804289383 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:C6:C0:AA:26
>           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)

Bummer.  All I can say is that these were eliminated for me after I
installed an update to initscripts.

[snip]

> The initscripts update did not eliminate the mutant device names. It
> did, however, eliminate my ethernet device. Imagine my ecstasy.

Perhaps starting over with system-config-network would sort this out.

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Garry T. Williams --- +1 678 656-4579




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