Re: Box from hell testing for FC3t2

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:43:33AM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >It even managed to rename my loopback device eth0 and create devices with
> >names like dev1536.
> 
> devices or network interfaces?? Did _you_ do that, or did that just happen?

network interface, and it did it not me. I think this was all part of the
fallout when loopback got renamed eth0 because it thought it was a 3com
3c59x that probed with a MAC of 00:00:00:00:00:00

apparently our code is not robust in this case