Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: NIC renaming does not rename /proc/sys/net/ipv4 Was: Re: NICs trading places ? | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 29 Mar 2003 13:29:19 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 13:17, bert hubert wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 05:47:17AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> writes: > > > > > 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 ? > > > > Just assign mac addresses to names and run nameif early in boot. > > A slight problem with that is that not all parts of /proc/sys get renamed > this way:
Just rename at early boot before IP is set up. That is what i usually do - set up /etc/mactab and run it very early at boot.
Running it later is usually flakey. e.g. it can also give confusing effects with old style named ip aliases.
-Andi
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