First NIC appearing as eth10 instead of expected eth0

[moi]

Hi,

you could take a look at /etc/modprobe.conf, which looks as follows on 
my pc (redhat 5.1)

    [root at barrakh etc]# more modprobe.conf
    alias eth0 pcnet32

It could be some alias defined in this file.

On the other hand, how did you define your ethernet scripts ? do you 
have an /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and -eth1 or how do 
they look like ?



John Summerfield schrieb:
> thomas62186218 at aol.com wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am running Fedora 8 32-bit with no updates (fresh install) on a 
>> server with a Tyan S5380 motherboard with the latest 2.00 BIOS. This 
>> motherboard has two Intel GbE ports on the motherboard.
>>
>> Oddly, when I type ifconfig -a, these GbE ports appear as eth10 and 
>> eth11. There is no eth0. I've been around Linux for a few years and 
>> have never seen anything like this, so I'm stumped. Why would it not 
>> map these GbE ports as eth0 and eth1, as expected?
> <snip>
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>>
>> Any ideas on this?
> No, but I have seen this behaviour on a virtual Debian system I have 
> here. In my case, I attributed it without much thought to the fact I 
> did not provide a MAC address, and I was running it directly with 
> qemu-kvm and not through virt* (which provides a consistent one for 
> each virtual machine).
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