Fedora 10 on an HP EVO D510

[John Summerfield]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:26:38PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>> If a kernel upgrade changes the first NIC's configuration from "no IP" 
>> to "student LAN IP," I have to be on site to sort it out. That's what 
>> renaming interfaces can do.
> 
> Sigh!  We were talking about an installation and not kernel changes.
> You clearly did not bother to look into
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, for example.  Right?
> 
> Could you explain how a kernel update can change a network interface
> name which happens to be tied up to a MAC address of that interface?
> Or you have on hands network cards with identical MACs?  You likely
> know that you can run into some grief with that no matter what.

Yesterday, after seeing this, I saw two other emails on two other lists, 
where people reported their network interfaces changed names.

One on SLED, one on RHEL.

In one case, it was apparently explained by a new driver's failure to 
claim the usual eth0.

> 
> Once name interface rules were recorded for the first time it take
> some work to move those names around.  It is possible but for you
> "too geek". Shrug!  One way or another it was like that for a long
> time.





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