Strange net device __tmp*

Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com
Sat Jun 16 17:43:22 UTC 2007


On 6/13/07, Reid Rivenburgh <reidr at pobox.com> wrote:
> Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > I have this happen with my wireless interface (ipw2200) from time to
> > time, and I'm fairly sure it happened under FC6 too.
> >
> > I have a theory, based entirely on conjecture and without a shred of
> > evidence. I think interfaces go through a period of being named __tmp*
> > during the driver load - I'm guessing after being detected, but before
> > the hardware initialisation has completed. The something happens that
> > prevents the final naming from completing. It's very bodgy looking.
> >
> > A reboot is my usual fix (ugh, what a hack!). I have see a handy tool
> > somewhere for renaming interfaces; you could try that. It was called
> > "nameif" or something like that.
>
> Thanks for the info and pointer to nameif.  It doesn't bother me much,
> because my only real interface is always properly named.  The biggest
> annoyance so far is that gkrellm displays a tab (now that I'm looking at
> it again) for each interface in its configuration dialog, and for some
> reason there are lots (like 15) of these __tmp* ones.  Also cipsec0,
> dev6984, dev28613, dev1804289383, ppp0, sit0, tun, and tun0!  The dialog
> ends up about four screens wide.  It all seems strange, but probably not
> dangerous, I guess.

Try to edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-yournetdevice and add
the hardware address to the line:

HWADDR=

That worked for me some time ago.

Cheers

>
> reid
>
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