anyone else having weird networking issues with the latest FC5 (2.6.17) kernel?

[Antonio Montagnani]

2006/6/26, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu>:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>
> > On 6/26/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >>
> >> > I'm seeing some bizarre networking problems with the latest FC5
> >> > kernel.  On one system, all of my ethernet interfaces have reversed
> >> > themselves.  eth2 is now eth0, eth0 is eth2.  If I boot back into the
> >> > last 2.6.16 based kernel, everything 'works' as expected again.
> >>
> >> Install the latest initscripts RPM (*still* only in updates-testing three
> >> months after release 8^( ).
> >
> > You mean the latest in updates-testing?  All of my systems are up to
> > date with respect to yum updates.
>
> Yes, that's the one.  My experience is that none of the other workarounds
> solve the problem reliably.  The initscripts fix has worked for me for
> three months.
>
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Confirmed.

It was the only way to have my networks working: it sounds strange
that initscrips is still sleeping in updates testing, does it mean
that very few people have more than one interface on their system??

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