Messages in this thread |  | | From | "another person" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 switches eth0 and eth1 from 2.2 | Date | Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:45:21 EDT |
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This is happening on exactly the same box. Both kernels have the drivers compiled in.
Thanks for the link to nameif. I'll try it.
>From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> >To: The Shadow's Hand <seandarcy@hotmail.com> >CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Subject: Re: 2.4 switches eth0 and eth1 from 2.2 >Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 04:30:05 +0200 > >On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:51:08PM -0400, The Shadow's Hand wrote: > > I've got an Asus P2B-L mobo, which has an integrated eepro100, and an > > DEC Tulip PCI card. I've been running 2.2.16. To use a new ATA/100 card > > I tried 2.4-test10-pre3. > > > > All worked well, indeed very well, except 2.4 switched eth0 and eth1 > > from 2.2.x. That is, the Tulip became eth0, rather than eth1 and the > > eepro100 became eth1. > > > > It took me a looong time to figure out the problem. I spent hours > > figuring I had driver trouble. Once seen, easily fixed. But even then, > > it's a pain to boot 2.2.x. > > > > Now I find that ether= won't work for PCI cards ( the Ethernet HOWTO > > needs to be corrected )!! > > > > This is an odd sort of bug ( feature? ) that will drive users of > > multi-nic machines nuts when 2.4 is rolled out. Hopefully it's only for > > my sort of setup. > >There are lots of ways how the network interface name can change when you >change kernel configuration (especially between hand loaded modules and >various kernels or when you switch the hd between different boxes with >multiple NICs) > >You can always use nameif (ftp.firstfloor.org:/pub/ak/smallsrc/nameif.c) >to avoid such nasty surprises. It is a small tool I wrote some months ago >because I was often plagued by this problem. You give it a file with MAC >addresses and device names, and it renames the network interfaces for you >This needs to be done before they're UP. > >You can even use it for logical naming, e.g. myhomenet0 > >-Andi > >
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