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Bug#343892: marked as done (Should document NIC naming issue with udev)

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When udev is used, drivers for network interface cards can be loaded in a 
different order than previously, basically because drivers are loaded in 
parallel. This can result in interfaces being swapped.

The best solution currently appears to be to create udev rewriting rules 
to fix the interface names.

This should be documented in the release notes for Etch.

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Hi,

during merge of the kernel team's release notes, I added this section
to the release notes:
        <sect1><heading>Device enumeration reordering</heading>
          <p>Etch features a more robust mechanism for hardware discovery
          than previous releases. However, this may cause changes in the
          order devices are discovered on your system affecting the order
          in which device names are assigned.
          For example, if you have two network adapters that are associated
          with two different drivers, the devices eth0 and eth1 refer to
          maybe swapped.</p>

          <p>For network devices, you can avoid this reordering by using the
          <prgn>ifrename</prgn> utility to bind physical devices to
          specific names at boot time.
<!-- TODO: add ifupdown-scripts-zg2 as well here? -->
          See <manref name="ifrename" section="8"> and <manref name="iftab"
          section="5"> for more information.</p>

<!-- TODO:
          *** maks: please review the initramfs stuff for accuracy - I'm going
          ***       by what I remember, and haven't tested this recently
          -->
          <p>For storage devices, you can avoid this reordering by using
          <prgn>initramfs-tools</prgn> and configuring
          <prgn>initramfs-tools</prgn> to load storage devices in the same
          order they are currently loaded.
          [...]


Cheers,
Andi
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  http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/

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