Strange Ethernet Problem on FC5 x86 (port changes randomly once rebooted!)

[Jake Angulo]

Hi Mathew & Chris,

Thanks a lot for your ideas so far.  I will be testing them soon after i get
to our datacenter -
which is in another location :(

Your ideas make good sense, i'll implement those and post feedbacks on this
thread.

Best regards,

Jake


On 12/4/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Jake Angulo wrote:
>
> > Guys,
> >
> > This problem is blowing me away, i really wonder if somebody else has
> > experienced this.  No errors at all!
> > But what is strange is the behavior of my ethernet ports.
> >
> > OS: FC5 i386  kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i686.rpm
> > Machine: Dell Poweredge w/ 2 broadcom gb ethernet, and 2 intel 10/100
> > ethernet.
> >
> > So basically, i have:  eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3
> >
> > What happens is that for every random "n" times i reboot my machine, my
> > network interface assignments (eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3) seem to be be
> > randomly interchanged!
> > ie: eth0 before reboot, becomes eth3 or eth1 after reboot, and so on!
> > At first i thought one port was defective, but then i realized what was
> > happening when i tried to physically move the UTP cable from one port to
> > another, and miraculously i can now ping what used to be my logical
> port,
> > magically transferred to another physical port!
> >
> >[...]
> >
> > Pls help!  Any suggestions, or thoughts, or links to solutions would be
> very
> > highly appreciated.
>
> What version of initscripts?  The latest for FC5 is
> initscripts-8.31.6-1.i386.rpm.  Between the original release and this one,
> there was a fix included for this issue.
>
> BTW, device naming bugs showed up in FC6 as well.  initscripts-8.45.7-1 in
> updates-testing is supposed to fix them.
>
>
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