Another Network Manager Stupidity: Swapping eth0 and eth1

Jonathan Davis davisje50 at gmail.com
Tue May 9 18:16:16 UTC 2006


I've seen it do the exact same thing on my FC5 laptop.

On 5/9/06, Dan <grinnz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Charles Curley wrote:
> > I have just found what may be another Network Manager (NM)
> > stupidity. I have two NICs on my laptop
> > (http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html) running Fedora Core
> > 5. One is a wired Ethernet interface, the other a wireless Ethernet
> > interface. In system-config-network, I have anchored eth0 and eth1 to
> > specific MAC addresses.
> >
> > I recently switched from using the usual configuration tools to NM. I
> > just found out is that NM seems to be ignoring that MAC address
> > anchoring. It has swapped eth0 and eth1. As a result of this the
> > firewall defined by firestarter does not work, and as a result of that
> > my system is wide open and has been for several days.
> >
> > This came to my attention because I started to think I may have a root
> > kit on my laptop, and started to track things down. "Pain-Free
> > Networking", huh?
> >
> >
> I haven't "anchored" anything, with the same situation (wired and
> wireless), and NM works fine for me, eth0 stays wired and eth1 wireless.
> Hey, it's a _lot_ closer than system-config-network as far as "zeroconf"
> wireless networking.
> -Dan
>
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