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Re: The same hardware different ethernet device names



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On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:16:18AM +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've got several Intel server platforms .... on every platform I 
> upgraded BIOS to the latest version and installed Debian Etch. On five 
> of them I have two ethernet interfaces eth0/eth1 but ONLY one has eth1 
> eth2 actually eth2/eth1 - this order.
> 
> debian:~# cat /proc/net/dev
> Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
> face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed 
> multicast|bytes    packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
>    lo:    6272      59    0    0    0     0          0         0     
> 6272      59    0    0    0     0       0          0
>  eth0:70052053  724027    0    0    0     0          0         0 
> 13840349   10660    0    0    0     0       0          0
>  eth1:       0       0    0    0    0     0          0         0        
> 0       0    0    0    0     0       0          0
> debian:~#
> 
> debian:~# cat /proc/net/dev
> Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
> face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed 
> multicast|bytes    packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
>    lo:    1744      19    0    0    0     0          0         0     
> 1744      19    0    0    0     0       0          0
>  eth2:       0       0    0    0    0     0          0         0        
> 0       0    0    0    0     0       0          0
>  eth1:69578781  718143    0    0    0     0          0         0   
> 106021    1375    0    0    0     0       0          0
> debian:~#
> 
> How this is possible? How kernel/module (e1000) calculates interface 
> number and what can cause such "disorder"?
i have had a simialar expirience using cheap realtek based cards and
also some 3com ones...

since then i use ifrename to asign the names based on the mac address...
this could also be done via udev i think...

yours
albert
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Albert Dengg <a_d@gmx.at>
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