Re: SOLVED - problems with 2 NICs in amd64

[Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn@terra.com.br>]

Hi Gabor,

  Your answer solved the problem. "ip link list" showed the second NIC
as "eth7", and I could configure and use it correctly.

  So, it was not an amd64 porting issue, sorry for posting to the wrong
list.

  Thanks,
   Pedro
  
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 05:26:34PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> 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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