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

[Matthew Saltzman]

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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 		Matthew Saltzman

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