two network card issues on rawhide upgrade

[Michel Salim]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
> I upgraded one of my router from F9 to rawhide (F10).
> Well I got a message stating that Mac address were wrong, I made a
> autodetect, then eth0 became eth1 and eth1 eth0 (i.e. eth0 was the internal
> network card and became the Internet card, the reverse for eth0)
> Of course I had to change eth0 in eth1 and viceversa also in iptables!!!
>
> What is the component to blame???

Not sure; however, a quick solution will be to use
system-config-network and override the device name (under the Hardware
tab).

This document describes the problem that you might be facing in more details:

http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/nic-enum-whitepaper-v3.pdf

Hope that helps,

-- 
Michel Salim
http://hircus.jaiku.com/

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