Re: Network FUBAR
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On 04/29/08 20:05, Andrew Reid wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 April 2008 19:54, Daniel D Jones wrote:
>
>
> [ Much snippage ]
>> Anyone have any ideas before I wipe the hard drive and start from scratch?
>
> Two possibilities:
>
> One: Device name. Maybe the interface isn't "eth0" anymore,
> because of the hardware change. This seems improbable to me,
> because you said the interface was up and in the routing table.
> I *have* seen a system come up with only one network card,
> and with it being named "eth1", don't know what causes that.
>
> Two: MAC addresses. These will have changed with the
> hardware. Does your network have a MAC whitelist or filter
> somewhere? Is there a local config file that depends on the
> MAC address being right, e.g. to assign device names to
> interfaces? Does your firewall do MAC filtering?
>
Those are good points. Look in /var/log/syslog and also in
/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
We want... a Shrubbery!!
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