Re: problems with 2 NICs in amd64

[Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 08:50:06AM -0300, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote:

>    if fails with the following message:
>       SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
>       eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>       SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device

Probably udev renamed the interfaces trying to maintain persistent
interface names. Run "ifconfig -a" or "ip link list" to see the existing
interface names.

>    The only situation that "ifconfig" sets up correctly is with one
> 3com905 NIC plugged into PCI slot, when there are two nics, none work.

So probably udev gave the name "eth0" to that particular 3com905 NIC,
and the others are named eth1, eth2 and so on. The upside is when you
install the same card the second time it will get the same name as
before.

Gabor

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