networking problems after an update

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:57:21PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Michal Jaegermann (michal at harddata.com) said: 
> > It looks that during the latests rawhide update something
> > renamed on its own, in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts,
> > ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-eth0.bak and ifcfg-eth1 to ifcfg-eth1.bak.
> > Links in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/, although not
> > in ....profiles/default/, vanished too.  As a result only
> > a loopback was active after a reboot.  Surprise!  I cannot
> > figure out what had such bright idea.  Any hints?
> 
> Cute. Did your network modules go away?

Cute indeed. :-)

AFAICS my network modules are still in place.  I just
restored my ifcfg*.bak files to original names, did
'/etc/init.d/network restart', and I was back in business.
It would be more interesting exercise if I had only a network
access to a stricken box.

   Michal