Network Problems after recent upgrades - 2.6.24 kernel?

[Timothy Murphy]

Antti J. Huhtala wrote:

>> > The GUI approach is to go to System->Administration->Network and edit
>> > the nicknames of NICs. In my case I changed "eth0.bak" to "lan" and
>> > "eth1.bak" to "wan" because my eth0 card is connected to local network
>> > and eth1 card to the Internet.
>> 
>> As a matter of interest, where did you read that you could make
>> changes like this?
...
>> Or was it just by experiment?
>> 
> Yes. Noting that the GUI window stated my eth1 nickname was eth1.bak
> although I don't remember having seen that nickname before, I just
> started experimenting. First nicknaming eth0 to "lan" brought eth0
> connection to life at next boot, and then eth1 to "wan" brought internet
> connection to life at the next.
> Afterwards I realized there were no ifcfg-eth0 or ifcfg-eth1 files
> in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. They apparently had been named to
> "ethx.bak" by new kernel or one of the updated packages with it.

That is more or less my experience.
system-config-network (or its GUI entries) seems to edit and re-name files
for no reason that I can see.

But I'm surprised that you can rename the interfaces as you wish,
eg in your case to lan and wan.
I would have thought this would confuse udev.
Maybe system-config-network is cleverer than I gave it credit for ...


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