Where is eth0/eth1/assigned -
Bob Goodwin
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Thu Jun 4 22:29:13 UTC 2009
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> It can be, but /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules tends to be
>> more important - it maps the MAC address to the device name. Then
>> you may also have the HWADDR=<MAC address> option in your
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg=eth? file. That will provent
>> the interface from coming up if the MAC address of the NIC does not
>> match.
>>
>> You can edit the 70-persistent-net.rules file, or you can delete it
>> if you want to renumber the NICs. It will be re-created for you the
>> next time you boot. Change the HWADDR= value requires you do edit
>> the ifcfg-eth? file. (Hand edit or GUI.)
>>
>> Mikkel
>>
>
> After making the udev change I rebooted and it complained of a file
> system error and requested fsck. It's churning through that now.
> This is an old computer that I probably shouldn't even be fooling
> with but I thought it might do some good and I might learn a few
> things in the process. The latter part is true at least!
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob
>
>
The fsck looked like it would never finish. I quit and did another
reinstall from the livecd. This time eth0 came up right and I did
the routine things to make the network connection for 192.168.1.10
and it is happily running a yum update at last!
Thanks all for the assistance.
Bob
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