linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.20/2.6.20-rc7 : ethX renumbered

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Date:	Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:04:23 +0100
From:	"Benoit Boissinot" <bboissin@...il.com>
To:	rol@...be.net
Cc:	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	rol@...917.net
Subject: Re: 2.6.20/2.6.20-rc7 : ethX renumbered

On 2/11/07, Paul Rolland <rol@...be.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm facing something quite strange... When booting one of these kernels
> (it's a new machine, I've not been running older kernels), the boot message
> says :
>
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
> sky2 v1.10 addr 0xff8fc000 irq 19 Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2
> sky2 eth0: addr 00:18:f3:e0:5d:d4
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> sky2 v1.10 addr 0xff7fc000 irq 16 Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2
> sky2 eth1: addr 00:18:f3:e0:36:fd
>
> So, I'm expecting two interfaces : eth0 and eth1
>
> Unfortunately, at the end of the boot process, I can find eth1 and eth2,
> something/somewhat/someone has renumbered them ;

usually distro enable persistent interface naming with udev, check
/etc/iftab and see if you have something like
/etc/udev/something-iftab.rules

regards,

Benoit
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