Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:27:28 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: NICs trading places ? |
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On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:25:25 -0800 Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> wrote:
| On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:10:37PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote: | > I just upgraded a box with 2 NICs in it to 2.5.66, and found | > that what was eth0 in 2.4 is now eth1, and vice versa. | > Is this phenomenon intentional ? documented ? | > What caused it to do this ? | | Is this a Red Hat system? I encountered the same thing on a | RHAS system. Basically, Anaconda had controlled the module load order | in /etc/modules.conf for 2.4. Because my network drivers were built in | in 2.5, they loaded in the order of the compile-in. This turned out to | be the reverse order. | Swapping eth0 and eth1 in /etc/modules.conf fixed the problem | for me. This is not to say it is "Red Hat's fault" or that this is | entirely the same situation, but I figured this would make a good | datapoint.
I saw this same problem at home last night, not on a RH system, so I think it's just a 2.5.lately thing.
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